Heads up: Removal of the old build system in JDK8

[Thomas Ng]

Hi Magnus:

Deploy repo in jdk8 is kept in sync with jdk7u, and we have files to 
make sure deploy can be built with both new and old build system.   
Please make sure me and Dave are cc'ed on any changes in deploy repo.

Thanks.

-thomas

On 10/1/2013 6:30 AM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> The new build system ("build-infra") has been the default way of 
> building the JDK for almost a year. Keeping the old build system in 
> sync with the new requires time and effort, and is getting harder all 
> the time.
>
> So the time has come to finally kill of the old build system for those 
> components where the new build system exists (i.e. langtools, jdk, 
> corba, jaxp and jaxws -- but not hotspot).
>
> If you have not switched over to using the new build system, this is 
> the time!
>
> If you are using build functionality in the old build system that is 
> not replicated in the new build system, please let us know.
>
> Apart from building the product, the old build system (the "make" 
> directories in the top-level repo or any sub repo) contains a number 
> of other utilities, scripts and make targets to produce results other 
> than the product itself. These will not be removed (unless the 
> functionality is replaced in the new build system), but we would still 
> like to hear from you what are actively being used, and what are just 
> remnants that can be removed.
>
> Please direct your replies to the build-dev at openjdk.java.net list.
>
> /Magnus