VisualVM in IcedTea6

[Andrew Haley]

Lillian Angel wrote:
> Andrew Haley wrote:
>> Lillian Angel wrote:
>>
>>>> 2008/7/30 Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu.com>
>>  
>>>> Have to say I wondered what was going on when I saw the
>>>> ChangeLog entry, and I still don't understand the reasoning.
>>>> Is there a reason this has to be built WITH the VM?  If it's a
>>>> truly separate application, then building them against each
>>>> other is a job for a distro.  Otherwise, the next logical step
>>>> is --with-eclipse, --with-jboss, --with-glassfish, etc.

>>> VisualVM is a tool we would eventually like to ship with
>>> IcedTea/OpenJDK.

>> In the same package?  I can't see any reason it should be.  The IcedTea
>> package might usefully be made more fine-grained, not less.

> JDK 6 Update 7 was recently released with Java VisualVM included. I
> suspect it  may eventually be included in OpenJDK. No extra sources have
> been included in the IcedTea repository, so size should not be an issue.
> The only changes are to the Makefile/configure files. 

Sure, but ATM if you want to build VisualVM you have to build OpenJDK,
right?  If so, that is a Bad Thing.

> We do have the option of shipping this as a separate package when the
> time comes.

Why not now?  Even if the thing is to be shipped as part of OpenJDK, why
build it with OpenJDK?

Andrew.