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On 24/04/11 18:12, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
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<div>FYI...</div>
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<div>I sent this, but I'm not seeing any record it was received...
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<div>-kto</div>
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font-size: medium;">April 22, 2011 16:49:29 PM PDT<br>
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Infrastructure Changes</b><br>
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<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">In accordance with the OpenJDK guidelines for projects [1], I hereby
propose the OpenJDK Project "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal; font-size: medium;">Build Infrastructure Changes</span>".</span></font></pre>
<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">This Project will be used for developing major changes to the JDK </span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">build </span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px;">process.</span></pre>
<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px;">A list of some of the goals include:</span></pre>
<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px;"> * Drastically improving the turnaround on full builds</span></pre>
<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px;"> * Provide a reliable way for incremental builds to work</span></pre>
<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px;"> * Simplify the makefiles drastically avoiding unnecessary nested makes</span></pre>
<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px;"> * Allow for parallel building with make -j</span></pre>
<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px;"> * Allow for 32bit builds to happen on 64bit systems</span></pre>
<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px;"> * Allow for use of more portable build tools (compilers etc.) where possible</span></pre>
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Can I add support for alternative JVM's ? <br>
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<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px;">This work will be done in a separate set of repositories</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px;">.</span></pre>
<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">I propose this project be sponsored by the Build Group [2] and that I
be the initial moderator of the project.
[1] </span></font><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://openjdk.java.net/projects/"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">http://openjdk.java.net/projects/</span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">
[2] </span></font><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://openjdk.java.net/groups/hotspot/"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">http://openjdk.java.net/groups/build/</span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">
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