How to check out the openjdk source code from the mercurial repositories

[Johan Walles]

2011-03-11 03:13, Erik Trimble skrev:
> On 3/10/2011 5:14 PM, David Holmes wrote:
>> Dr Andrew John Hughes said the following on 03/11/11 10:57:
>>> On 06:40 Fri 11 Mar , David Holmes wrote:
>>>> Stepping up a level, an initial download of openjdk need not involve
>>>> using mercurial at all. You can simply download a stable snapshot as a
>>>> tar file;
>>>
>>> This makes much more sense as a starting point for new users over having
>>> to handle Mercurial and checkouts. It works fine if you just want to
>>> _use_
>>> the latest and greatest, not hack on it.
>>
>> Even if you want to hack you can still do your initial download this
>> way. The hg commands only come into play when you want to update
>> things later.
>>
>>>> or download an install script that will do whatever is
>>>> necessary behind the scenes to get a complete openjdk.
>>>
>>> I don't know how that would work. I guess IcedTea comes close to this
>>> idea
>>> in that it detects the needed settings for the build, rather than
>>> them all
>>> having to be passed as make variables.
>>
>> I was thinking of a simple installer as used by various bits of
>> software. For example for Linux you might download a script that
>> simply contains the initial set of hg commands needed to get the
>> forest. On windows it might automate downloading a tarball and
>> extracting it.
>
> No matter how we structure the end JDK "forest" (and, I'm using forest
> in the generic term, not to infer use of the forest extension), I think
> it would be a good idea to have a top-level clone script that people can
> download for "one-click" usage.
>
> Inside that script, we can do interesting things - say, like download a
> pre-built tarball of the whole Hg repo, then refresh it. All sorts of
> interesting tricks become available if we go the route of encapsulating
> all the implementation details in a single script, and hide those
> details from the end-user. They then end up with a stable interface to
> doing common tasks.

Some people would consider getting the source code a common task and "hg 
clone" a stable interface for doing that.

Woho for stable interfaces for doing common tasks :-).

   Regards //Johan