suggestion and offer: langtools in build

[Kelly O'Hair]

Sounds like a swell idea to me.

-kto

On Jan 23, 2013, at 3:47 PM, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:

> OK, I realize you guys are really busy right now, so you may want to save this for a bit later ...
> 
> It bugs me that the new build creates lots of jar files for langtools, that only differ in the main program.
> 
>  updating 1739 files
>  updating 1739 files
>  updating 1739 files
> Modifying langtools/dist/lib/classes.jar
>  updating 1749 files
> 
> How about changing it so that we create a single jar file (classes.jar) that contains a "build-time only" main program which is a wrapper for all the necessary tools, such that the first arg identifies the tool.
> 
> Thus the downstream use is simply to replace
> 
>    BOOTJAVAHOME/bin/java -jar javac.jar args
> 
> with
> 
>    BOOTJAVAHOME/bin/java -jar classes.jar javac args
> 
> If you (build-infra guys) are interested, I'll provide the main program to go in the langtools repo. This would be for the build only -- there is no suggestion to put it in any external product.
> 
> -- Jon