RFR: 8152897: refactor ToolBox to allow reduced documented dependencies
Kumar Srinivasan
kumar.x.srinivasan at oracle.com
Wed Mar 30 18:16:24 UTC 2016
Jon,
What about javadoc ? With the new module options more so for
the tool than the doclet. Can we have a javadocTask ?
Thanks
Kumar
> JBS: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8152897
> Review: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jjg/8152897/webrev.00/index.html
>
> This is a test-only change, which updates the ToolBox test library
> from being a single top-level class in the unnamed package to a small
> set of classes in a new named package. Although this does increase the
> amount of overhead in the test description header, it also allows us
> to be more precise in the test dependencies, such that we can reduce
> otherwise unnecessary compilation dependencies. This will also make it
> more practical to extend the set of supported ToolBox tasks, such as
> for jmod, jlink etc, so that only tests that would want to use such
> tasks would incur any need to build the tasks.
>
> The update is primarily for javac tests, but also includes changes
> for tests for jshell and sjavac which also use the ToolBox test library.
>
> There is no significant change to the functionality of any tests. The
> build dependencies have been verified by running each test separately
> within jtreg, using a clean JTwork/classes directory for each test.
>
> -- Jon
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