solaris builds and new infra.....

[Alan Bateman]

On 30/11/2012 17:05, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
> :
>
> The overlay image has been one of these special cases that I would like to avoid, but at the same time, building two rt.jar
> files for the 32bit and 64bit images seems pretty silly too.
> So for the sake of simplicity, I'm willing to take the "build two rt.jar hit", and get rid of the overlay images, with the hopes
> that someday we stop building 32bit images. And keeping them separate might make the "get rid of 32bit builds" an easier
> path to take in the future.  And I do consider jigsaw extremely important, so we need to answer this issue for you guys.
>
> So unless I hear otherwise, we will be moving down the "no more overlay images on Solaris" path.
>
> As David points out, we will need to change the Solaris packaging.  This will not be trivial, but I think it is the right road to take.
>
> My only issue right now is that resources are tight, so this change may need to be merged with the build-infra
> project work. I'll start by filing some Issues in  JIRA for this.
>
> -kto
>
This is very welcome news. I agree with your point that if the images 
are separate then it will likely help with the retirement of the 32-bit 
image.

I agree with you that there will be implications, packaging in 
particular. I also assume it makes the launcher -d64 option defunct for 
example.

I also agree it's pointless doing this for the old build system although 
we have those changes in the jigsaw forest and they are trivial.

So does this need a JEP, I suspect it might.

-Alan