On 2013-10-30 16:01, Alan Bateman wrote:
I remember Kelly calling for hazard pay for anyone deleting code and
triple pay for anyone deleting Makefile code.
Boy am I going to be rich! :-)
At a high level the plan looks reasonable. Aside from build tools then
what else are you expecting to look at in step 2?
There is a wild bunch of assorted left-overs, that are used here and
there. As you say, most is the build tools, but there is also a lot of
data files, like input files to the build tools, templates, and stuff
that perhaps should be in src. Finally, there is a bunch of utilities
and scripts that are not used by the build system, but seems to be
designed for the occasional use, like CommentChecker. I don't really
think these belong in the make directory, but I currently don't have any
good suggestion of where else to put it either.
So is the plan to do all of this in jdk8 before RDP2? If so then what
would you think about pushing the changes to jdk8/tl rather than
jdk8/build? I suggest pushing the changes to jdk8/tl because you are
more likely to get more usage and testing before the changes go into
jdk8. Also it helps to reduce conflicts (the white-spacing and split
out of CompileNativeLibraries.gmk was disruptive).
So, if it is agreed that this should be done in JDK8, that might be a
good idea. Thank you.
/Magnus
