Progress?

[Andrew John Hughes]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:23:19AM -0700, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
> 
> On Jul 13, 2011, at 9:43 AM, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 09:13:05AM -0700, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
> >> 
> >> On Jul 12, 2011, at 2:51 PM, Steve Poole wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Hi Kelly,
> >>> 
> >>> Its seems to have all gone quiet on the infra project.  What's up?
> >> 
> >> Vacations, Paternity leaves, and getting jdk7 out the door distractions. :^(
> >> 
> >> We considered pushing in changes while people were out, but it was decided to wait and
> >> have them do the push themselves.
> >> 
> >> I'm also wondering if we should be pulling in the BSD and Mac port logic in at the same time,
> >> but that will require setting up BSD and Mac build systems. Just a thought.
> >> 
> > 
> > One thing at a time would be better... :-)
> 
> But the order might be important.
> 
> When we completely re-write the makefile logic, the BSD/MAC makefile changes will not be of any
> value. But if we see these changes first, we can make sure the new makefile logic works for it.
> 

Ah, good point.  I didn't think of that.

I don't see a problem as long as they are separate changesets.  I just have nightmares
of a single huge unfathomable changeset coming in...

> The jigsaw/modularity changes to the build system is a bit further off, and it's not clear how this
> will impact the build changes we have planned, but the general feeling is that it will be much better
> in the new world since we want to try and build the java packages in parallel, with different destinations,
> which should be better for modular builds.

I'm certainly looking forward to this 'new world'.

Is it all done behind the scenes?  Or is there still stuff to work on?

It would be nice if there was some 'TODO' list so others (like me)
could get involved if there's still work to be done.  There seems to
be little to no collaboration work between Oracle and external
contributors at present (I don't mean accepting/reviewing patches, but
in working on the same project) and it would be good to see this change.

> 
> -kto
> 
> > 
> >> -kto
> >> 
> >> 
> >>> 
> >>> (I've just taken ownership of a new laptop with lots of cores and memory and I'd love to use it to build OpenJDK in parallel !)
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> 
> >>> Steve
> >> 
> > 
> > -- 
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> > 
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