RFR: 8330107: Separate out "awt" libraries from Awt2dLibraries.gmk [v3]

[Phil Race]

On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 10:03:27 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <ihse at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> The file to build most of the java.desktop native libraries, Awt2dLibraries.gmk, is large and unstructured, making it hard to navigate.
>> 
>> I want to split it into two parts, one for the AWT libraries, and one for the 2D libraries. I also used this opportunity to change the order to be more logical (e.g. grouping "image" libraries and "font" libraries in 2D).
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> Magnus Ihse Bursie has updated the pull request incrementally with two additional commits since the last revision:
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>  - Make the split based on the name "awt" instead, and document the reason
>  - Rename 2dLibraries.gmk to ClientLibraries.gmk

I appreciate that the build group does a lot of work maintaining this file.
I'd like to think that even though it is a build file, it is build file for the desktop module, so I have skin in this game.
I am coming at it from the point of view of what makes sense (at least to me).
Even if I was the maintainer of this file, working on it every day, I wouldn't think splitting it any kind of priority.

So I need to be clear, if you REALLY want to do this, then I won't stop you, I just think it is the wrong thing to do.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/18743#issuecomment-2059731122