Any plan to cleanup x86 arch names?

mark.reinhold at oracle.com mark.reinhold at oracle.com
Wed Aug 15 15:10:03 UTC 2012


2012/8/15 4:52 -0700, magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com:
> Unfortunately, it is not that simple to just replace everything with x86.

Sad, but true.

> ...
> 
> 2) Changing names on files or directories (unfortunately) makes version control
> harder. If files are to be moved around all over the place anyway with Jigsaw,
> we might as well fix some names. It is not clear if it's worth the effort to
> rename files before such a major restructuring.

Agreed.  Not only will Jigsaw restructure the source tree, but it will
change the layout of $JRE/lib and make other changes that will, no doubt,
affect some existing code.  If we're going to fix all our old arch names,
that would be the right time to do it.

- Mark



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