RFR(M) : 8181761: add explicit @build actions for jdk.test.lib classes in all :tier2 tests

Chris Hegarty chris.hegarty at oracle.com
Mon Jun 12 14:30:52 UTC 2017


On 12/06/17 15:04, Alan Bateman wrote:
> ...
>>
> For now, yes, I think these are okay. As part of the clean-up then it
> would be good to update FileUtils to not use Platform and that would
> avoid needing to build jdk.test.lib.Platform in several of these tests.

I wrote the original FileUtils. Why was it changed to use Platform?
The previous code was just reading a system property. Changing it
to use Platform adds very little. Can this please be reverted? If
so, then doing it before 8181761 would help reduce the churn in
the code.

-Chris.


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