JDK8 Preliminary Repository Layout

[Jonathan Gibbons]

On 03/11/2011 04:22 AM, Johan Walles wrote:
> 2011-03-10 20:17, John Coomes skrev:
>> Johan Walles (johan.walles at oracle.com) wrote:
>>> The problem for many developers with the all-in-one repository solution
>>> is the time it takes to clone everything (5-6 minutes).
>>
>> That's the best case, when I'm on the corporate network, close to the
>> server.  Over my dsl line at home, it takes 24 minutes for everything,
>> vs. 1 min 10 secs for hotspot (the only part I need).
>
> John, how would you feel about this situation?
>
> * You are forced to clone everything.
>
> * Cloning everything takes under a minute on your current (slow) DSL 
> connection.
>
> * You can still build and work with just your favorite component just 
> like you can today.
>
>   Regards //Johan

(Different Jon here)

I would be unhappy with proposals that force me to clone everything, 
since I typically have many copies of the langtools repo in flight, in 
various stages of development.  It would be excessive if all of these 
were full forests.  I've tried using "mq" and it doesn't work well for 
me -- in particular, it's a pain to switch between patches and have to 
rebuild all the corresponding binaries every time you switch.

-- Jon