On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 18:16:15 GMT, Mandy Chung <mch...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> @wangweij Moving build tools is a related, but separate, question, which is >> addressed by https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8241463. >> >> I send out a review earlier this year (see >> https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2020-March/027038.html), >> but there were differing opinions on what the proper placement of these >> tools should be, and the discussion kind of fizzled out without reaching a >> conclusion. > > @magicus @erikj79 it's now clearly stated that you want everything under > `make` owned by the build team, which is fair. You are right that `make` has > been easily considered as a dumping ground and it's time to define a clean > structure. > > I reviewed this patch and this looks okay to me. Some follow-up questions > and follow-on cleanup for example "should jdwp.spec belong to `specs` > directory vs `data`? There are platform-specific data (such as charsets) > which has been special-case in the makefile and they need follow-on clean up. > I agree that this should be cleaned up by the component teams and not part > of this PR. With these new files showing up in under `src` directory, should `bin/idea.sh` be changed to exclude `data` to avoid incurring costs in loading JDK project from IDE that many of us use for development? ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1611
