RFC: Separation of JTreg tool into independent project

[Andrew John Hughes]

On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 02:24:03PM +0200, Pavel Tisnovsky wrote:
> 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).
> 

Yes, but that's not what this patch seems to do.  It just moves the source
code out of the tree into a zip somewhere.  I was envisaging jtreg being
a separate project like the visualvm one with its own build infrastructure.
You'd then point configure at an installed jtreg.jar.  That could be built
from the IcedTea jtreg project or alternatively, you could use the one
Oracle provide if you were willing to accept the proprietary licensing
this entails.

> 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.
> 

Yes, and it's one of the most annoying things Oracle have ever done, as
there's no change visibility.  I've been thinking about reverting it
in the IcedTea tree so at least we can see the changes between zips
if not at the changeset level.

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

Why would IcedTea-Web need jtreg?

> Cheers,
> Pavel
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Andrew :)

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