[jdk17] RFR: 8268768: idea.sh has been updated in surprising and incompatible ways

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

On 15/06/2021 17:31, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 16:10:01 GMT, Maurizio Cimadamore <mcimadamore at openjdk.org> wrote:
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>> As the title says (please also refer to the JBS issue which describes all the issues in more details), the IDE support for IntelliJ has been updated with many enhancements as part of a seemingly innocuous "path handling" fix. The IDE doesn't appear to be usable in the same way it was in the past and many functionalities have been broken as a result (including support for jtreg test execution using the plugin).
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>> For the above reasons, I'm reverting the plugin and idea.sh code to last known working version. Any targeted fix can be re-applied after the revert. Larger enhancements need to be discussed in the proper venue:
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>> https://openjdk.java.net/groups/ide-support/
> I think reverting this is fine. In the original review, I tried to point out that it needed to be looked at by people who actually use this functionality, but that never happened.
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> I wasn't aware of the ide-support mailing list. Would you like me to add automatic filtering in Skara so that changes touching these files are automatically labelled and mailed to that list?

That would be welcome, yes! Unfortunately cc'ing ide-support using the 
PR command doesn't work either, so some changes is needed on the Skara side.

Thanks
Maurizio

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> Marked as reviewed by erikj (Reviewer).
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> PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk17/pull/61