Removal of the old build system, partial review

[Alan Bateman]

On 31/10/2013 14:38, Chris Hegarty wrote:
> What are we gaining by removing this in jdk8? Does it make sense to do 
> it as one of the first pushes to 9?
The old build is currently a tax, and a tax that will continue into the 
8 updates until the old build is removed or disabled. It's a real shame 
that the old build wasn't removed 6 months ago.

-Alan.