question on checking dependencies across modules

[Erik Joelsson]

On 2015-06-11 01:38, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
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> On 10/06/15 17:27, Mandy Chung wrote:
>>> On Jun 10, 2015, at 6:25 AM, Maurizio Cimadamore 
>>> <maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com> wrote:
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>>> Hi,
>>> In the context of the IntelliJ project support for JDK, I have a 
>>> question on the very last step of 'make images' :
>>>
>>> ## Starting verify-modules
>>> Checking dependencies across JDK modules
>>> Access verification succeeded.
>>>
>>> I noticed that this step is always applied, regardless of whether 
>>> there was actually any change in the sources/built classes or not. 
>>> Is that deliberate? This is a bit unfortunate as in our setup we 
>>> depend on 'make images' to run tests, and if there's nothing to do, 
>>> you will still have to wait several seconds for 'make images' to 
>>> complete.
>> This step verifies access across module boundaries and should only be 
>> needed when any change in built classes.    This can be improved 
>> while this step is temporary until the module system is moving 
>> along.   Erik and Magnus may be able to come up with a simple way to 
>> check if any class is recompiled; otherwise this step can be skipped.
> Right - this is what I was trying to ask - i.e. if there was any weird 
> reason as to why this step was necessary even w/o any change in any 
> source. It seems like the current behavior is mostly accidental and, 
> coupled with the fact that (i) this is going away soon and (ii) there 
> are workarounds (make jimages) - it should best be left as it is now?
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I might look into fixing dependency checking for the dependency 
checking, can't promise it though.
> Now, 'jimages' seems to be working fine for my needs - what is the 
> feeling about this target moving forward? Is it something we can rely 
> upon, or is 'jimages' also going away/replaced by something else (in 
> which case using 'images' would be a more stable choice) ?
>
jimages should not be considered a stable choice, I already don't like 
the name. Expect it to change at some point.

/Erik
> Maurizio
>> Mandy
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