Removal of the old build system, partial review

[mark.reinhold at oracle.com]

2013/10/31 2:41 -0700, kellyohair at gmail.com:
> With build logic, it is relatively easy to build before and after and
> verify the exact same resulting bits.
> 
> So the risk is considerably less than in other areas of software
> development.  There might be more risk leaving it in, where the wrong
> build logic gets changed to fix an issue, or the old build logic
> continues to be used and maintained.
> 
> Assuming that you may be supporting jdk8 updates for a long time, the
> long term maintenance cost could be significant. And if you declare
> that it won't be supported, why keep it.

I agree.  If it's too risky to remove the old build at this point
in JDK 8 then it will be too risky to remove it in any JDK 8 update
release, and we'll be stuck dragging this albatross around until
JDK 9.

- Mark