RFR: JDK-8180651: Make target to run tests on exploded image

[Erik Joelsson]

Sure we can pause this. Robbin has a local patch to play with for now.

If you want another name, then we should also rename exploded-image. As 
I understand it, the name exploded is well established. It refers to the 
java class files/resources not being in jars/jimage format, but exploded 
as separate files in a directory structure.

/Erik


On 2017-05-19 11:45, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> I like the idea, the changes in itself look good, but I really 
> *really* do not like the name "exploded". It was not good before as in 
> "exploded-image", but this is even worse. :-(
>
> Can we pause this one for just a while and try really hard to come up 
> with a better name? If we fail to do that in a couple of days, I'll 
> admit defeat and accept the patch as it is. OK?
>
> What about "local" image? "simple"? "quick"? "bare"?
>
> /Magnus
>
> On 2017-05-19 11:26, Erik Joelsson wrote:
>> In most cases, when running regression tests, you want to run them on 
>> the jdk image because that's the correct image and some tests will 
>> not work on other variants. However, many tests can be run 
>> successfully on the exploded image and since building the full jdk 
>> image takes quite a bit of extra time, especially when running a 
>> slowdebug build, enabling this as an option can significantly improve 
>> developer efficiency.
>>
>> I therefor propose the new target "exploded-run-test". It will work 
>> just like run-test but it depends on and runs on the exploded image.
>>
>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8180651
>>
>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8180651/webrev.01/
>>
>> /Erik
>>
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