Compact JRE Profiles for Desktop?

[Alan Bateman]

On 13/11/2012 10:34, Daniel Zwolenski wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
> Thanks for your response. Contributing to the efforts for support on other platforms is something I am willing to have a crack at.
>
> I have signed the oracle contributors agreement and all that jazz, and I'm totally confident with all things java. The native, low level stuff might be a bit of a learning curve so I guess I'll just take a stab at it and see what happens. Any tips on how best to get started?
>
I suggest taking a clone of jdk8/profiles and build it on Linux so that 
you get a feel for the build and the new "profiles" build target.

The forest is currently at jdk8-b60 so another thing you could do is "hg 
diff -g -r jdk8-b60" to get a feel for the changes in each of the 
repositories, in particular the platforms that are platform specific. A 
bit sync up will be required soon and that may require a lot of changes 
to the build so keep that in mind.

-Alan