JDK8 Preliminary Repository Layout

[David Holmes]

Steve,

Steve Poole said the following on 03/15/11 19:27:
> I don't know how much cross-repo changes go on.   It would seem that if 
> that is minimal then the next logical step would be to
> remove the source for the repos you're not working on and just have the 
> binaries instead.    Do you see that as a worthwhile goal?

I'm not quite sure what you mean by this but working on different repos 
we often do just use the "binaries" for other parts. For hotspot for 
example my build process was the create the new libjvm.so file and 
simply drop into a JDK. I never needed to build the JDK to do that. I 
imagine the JDK folks do something similar and just drop an updated 
rt.jar into an existing JDK, or an updated libjava.so etc. Sometimes 
when I'm working on JDK changes I'll just use Xbootclasspath to test 
things out with an existing JDK.

David Holmes