RFR: JDK-8027566 Remove the old build system

[Alan Bateman]

On 11/11/2013 11:29, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
>
> I agree. Pushing through TL will expose the patch to more testing and 
> will make it easier to patch it. I think you are right that this is 
> what we should do with this patch.
>
> However, I'm still worried that there will be a need to manually 
> resolve several conflicts with changes done in the build forest in the 
> meantime. But I'm interpreting your answers as I should not worry 
> about that.
>
> /Magnus
I just checked and it looks like that are only 3 or 4 changes in 
jdk8/build that are not in jdk8/tl. Are these going into jdk8/jdk8 this 
week? If not then could you just pull them into jdk8/tl before pushing 
the changes that remove the old build?

As regards timing then jdk8/tl currently has ~50 changes backed up for 
jdk8-b117. Lana usually takes the snapshot for integration on Wednesday 
@ 10am PT. It might be best to wait for this week's snapshot to be taken 
before pushing the big changes to jdk8/tl. If Wednesday > 10am PT delays 
you then we could ask Lana about taking the snapshot early or else just 
skipping the integration for b117.

-Alan