RFC: Separation of JTreg tool into independent project

[Pavel Tisnovsky]

Hi all,

some time ago I discussed with Andrew John Hughes about the separation
of JTreg tool from the IcedTea6 and IcedTea7 projects. In summary (ie
how I understand this task): JTreg should be developed as independent
project and in the future they should be synchronized with recent JTreg
version (used by Oracle guys AFAIK).

In the attachment there's very first version of patched Makefile.am from
IcedTea6 HEAD. When user call command 'make jtreg' from command line,
archive containing stable version of JTreg tool sources is downloaded
into 'drops/' subdirectory, then this archive is unzipped into 'test/'
subdirectory and then JTreg is compiled & run as usual.

This functionality is similar as in the case of JAXP and JAXWS - these
two parts of JDK are also separated from JDK sources.

What do you think about this solution (which could be the same for
IcedTea6 and IcedTea7, also *probably* for IcedTea-web)?

Cheers,
Pavel
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