JDK8 Preliminary Repository Layout

[Johan Walles]

2011-03-10 10:33, Anthony Petrov skrev:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> On 3/10/2011 3:48 AM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
[snip]
>> Hey, I'd just make it all one repository as they all interdepend on
>> each other
>
> One huge "all-in-all" repository is great for integrators, porters, or
> maintainers, but it isn't that convenient for developers working on
> specific areas of JDK. Primarily because of the unnecessarily increased
> build time.

Build time wouldn't be an issue if you could build a single component by 
itself by just cd:ing into the component directory and do "make" there.

The problem for many developers with the all-in-one repository solution 
is the time it takes to clone everything (5-6 minutes).

   Regards //Johan

> Since it's always possible to make a clone of the whole 'forest', and
> hence get all the repos virtually at once, I don't really see any
> problems with making some parts of the class (and native) libraries
> separate repositories.
>
> --
> best regards,
> Anthony