[IcedTea] Where to put the new default NetX jar?

[Lillian Angel]

  Hi,

> 
> Joshua Sumali wrote:
>> Lillian Angel wrote:
>>>>> Joshua Sumali wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've recently refactored the NetX package names to follow proper 
>>>>>> conventions. As a result, the old default NetX application breaks 
>>>>>> since it relies on the old package naming. As a result, I've made 
>>>>>> a new default application jar similar to the old one, but I'm 
>>>>>> unsure of where to put it. Note that the old one is hosted on the 
>>>>>> original author's SourceForge page, which we don't have access to. 
>>>>>> We can either:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1. Host it somewhere online (e.g. icedtea.classpath.org)
>>>>>> 2. Include the jar with the built JRE, since NetX will be part of 
>>>>>> the JRE soon (as opposed to the SDK). If we do this, which 
>>>>>> directory in the JRE would be appropriate?
>>>>>
>>>>> I prefer this. Where to put it? maybe tools-copy? This dir can be 
>>>>> renamed to something more appropriate, but you can keep it with all 
>>>>> the tools stuff. I guess use your own discretion- anywhere is fine.
>>>>
>>>> Sorry, i meant to keep the netx jar in the tools-copy directory, and 
>>>> copy it out to the jre when building. In the JRE, I would think 
>>>> putting it in lib/.
>>>>
>> I think you meant the 'tools' directory as tools-copy is used for 
>> building hotspot :) But even then, the tools directory is supposed to 
>> be disappearing since I've moved tools/* to rt/* (all the NetX sources).

Right, I am thinking we should just have a generic directory for these
things. Files to used to copy tools sources, extras stuff. But I will
leave it up to you to determine the most organized (and cleanest) way.

>>
>> Hmm, which reminds me: if we decide to just include this default.jar 
>> in the JRE (say in lib/), I'd need to build this jar during the 
>> icedtea build process, and thus I'd also need somewhere to put the 
>> default.jar sources for building. tools/ doesn't seem too appropriate 
>> since the class files aren't going into any tools.jar. Perhaps a new 
>> icedtea/extra/ directory?

  Sure. Maybe we can minimize the number of different dirs we have to 
make
  it a little more intuitive. Feel free to move everything else around as
  you see fit.


>>>>>
>>>>>> 3. Something better?


Cheers,
Lillian