Need reviewer: corba changes for build infra

[Fredrik Öhrström]

2012-03-13 10:24, Dmitry Samersoff skrev:
> Frederik,
>
> Just a curious - why we need a Java program here?
> Could sed do the same with less efforts?

In the old build system, there are two StripProperties.java
in corba and in the jdk with slightly different implementations
and command line options. And there are two CompileProperties.java
in langtools and in the jdk. Also slightly different.

There is >also< a broken sed implementation of StripProperties
in the jdk, and sometimes the properties files are simply copied over.

The net result is that, for property files.

Sometimes compiled to a bytecode class, and for those that remain text:
: is sometimes translated to \:
= is sometimes translate to \=
# comment is sometimes cleaned to only #, in a broken way, since #
inside text strings mutilates the text string.
# comment is sometimes removed completely.
\u00E9 is sometimes translated to binary E9, ie part of iso8859-1
translation, but not always.
The key values are sometimes sorted into a stable random sort.

If this does not make you go, bleeech, I do not know what will.

In the new build system, the StripProperties and CompileProperties
will be annotation processors inside the smart javac wrapper inside
langtools.
Neat and clean.

Oh, and the contortions the common/bin/compareimages.sh script have to
go through to
manage to compare the properties files between the old a new build in
some sensible way.
:-)

//Fredrik