RFR: JDK-8244093 Move all IDE support into coherent structure in make directory

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

How derpy of me. I forgot to post the link to the updated webrev!

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ihse/JDK-8244093-move-ide-support/webrev.02/

/Magnus

On 2020-05-18 16:50, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Sorry for the long time to follow up on this patch.
>
> From the reviewers' feedback, I have now restored all files to 
> make/langtools, except for those in the netbeans and intellij 
> directories. This also meant that in the make/ide/idea/langtools 
> directory there were now only an "intellij" directory. This seemed 
> awkward, so I moved everything up one level, effectively scrapping the 
> "intellij" directory. Paths has been changed accordingly in 
> make/langtools and make/ide/*/langtools.
>
> I also removed make/ide/netbeans/jdk. No-one seemed to be countering 
> Jan's claim that it's unused. Instead, we got testimony on how 
> Netbeans can be setup without any specific support from the build 
> system. I think this excellent information should be properly 
> documented. I've created JDK-8245210 for this, and I hope I can enroll 
> the help of Jan and Brad to get this correctly documented.
>
> No other changes, outside the langtools files and 
> make/ide/netbeans/jdk has been made, compared to the previous version.
>
> /Magnus
>
> On 2020-04-29 13:06, Jan Lahoda wrote:
>> I am not sure if anyone is still using make/jdk/netbeans. Apache 
>> NetBeans does not (should not) need these config files, it supports 
>> OpenJDK modules out of the box (with some tweaks/dependencies on 
>> make/langtools/** to speed up langtools build).
>>
>> As Maurizio, there may be some need to move the "fast" langtools 
>> build more carefully. I'll try to take a look later, unless some else 
>> wants to. Although, a little independently, I wonder somewhat if 
>> there's an opportunity to further speed up the ordinary make build in 
>> incremental environment to reduce the need for a "fast" langtools 
>> build. E.g. by enhancing the current Depend javac plugin, and 
>> possibly optionally disabling the interim langtools build. This could 
>> improve incremental build behavior for other modules (like java.base 
>> or java.desktop) as well.
>>
>> Jan
>>
>> On 29. 04. 20 12:36, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
>>> The IDE support in OpenJDK unfortunately leaves a lot to be desired. 
>>> There have been a garden variety of attempt to support a specific 
>>> IDE for a specific part of the code base, cluttered all over the 
>>> code base.
>>>
>>> This patch is a first attempt go get one ring, eh..., structure, to 
>>> rule them all.
>>>
>>> I have moved all IDE project creators into the following structure:
>>>
>>> make/ide/<ide>/<part of the code>
>>>
>>> where <part of the code> is one of currently "hotspot", "langtools" 
>>> or "jdk", and <ide> is one of "vscode", "idea", "netbeans" or 
>>> "vistualstudio".
>>>
>>> This will not magically improve IDE support, but will at least make 
>>> it clearer what we have and what we are missing.
>>>
>>> Ownership of the IDE support is notoriously vague. I've cc:ed a 
>>> bunch of people who has shown interest and/or submitted fixes to 
>>> some of the IDE projects according to the hg history. I'd appreciate 
>>> it if anyone who is interested in a particular case for IDE support 
>>> can verify that it still works. I've tried my best to make sure all 
>>> targets can run without errors, but I cannot verify that the IDE 
>>> environment themselves are correct.
>>>
>>> If you know about an IDE project that is no longer relevant, and 
>>> should be removed instead of shuffled around, please let me know!
>>>
>>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8244093
>>> WebRev: 
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ihse/JDK-8244093-move-ide-support/webrev.01
>>>
>>> /Magnus
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