Should we rename the MASTER forest?

[Kelly O'Hair]

The jdk repository (formerly j2se workspace) also includes the full jdk
image creation, including construction of rt.jar and tools.jar, and
building the demos.

Now that langtools is separate and the bulk of the jdk repository build
doesn't run itself during the build, it might be possible to look at
somehow separating out or isolating the classfile building, the native code
building, the image creation, and the demo building (which does run the jdk image).
What this means to the naming or layout I'm not sure, but thought I would
mention it.

-kto

Mark Reinhold wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:58:29 +0000
>> From: Andrew John Hughes <gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org>
> 
>> On 09/11/2007, roman.kennke at aicas.com wrote:
>>> ...
>>>
>>> What about 'classlibs' for the class libs, rather than jdk?
>> classlibs seems a better name, I think 'jdk' is a legacy name from before
>> langtools and friends were split out (but then again, this never included
>> hotspot).
> 
> (Historical note: Many years ago it did include the Classic VM, the
>  original C-language bytecode interpreter.)
> 
> The corba and jaxp and jaxws and langtools subtrees all contain class
> libraries too, so "classlibs" is little better than "jdk" (which used
> to be "j2se", which was even worse).
> 
> - Mark