<i18n dev> [8]RFR: 8024332: sun/util/resources/en split between rt.jar and localedata.jar

[David Holmes]

On 10/09/2013 7:17 AM, Naoto Sato wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> With this change, rt.jar would contain all the supported English locales
> in java.text and java.util packages (cf.
> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/javase7locales-334809.html#util-text),
> whereas US English is the only supported locale at the moment w/o
> localedata.jar.

Got it - thanks. No impact to the compact profiles.

> As to the testing, if those compact profiles keep claiming to support
> only en_US, there should not be any testing impact even for locale-based
> testing.

Some environments don't contain the optional localedata.jar so tests 
that require it need to be identified. This change might alter the list 
of tests. But that isn't your concern.

Thanks,
David

> Naoto
>
> On 9/8/13 7:47 PM, David Holmes wrote:
>> Hi Naoto,
>>
>> On 7/09/2013 5:01 AM, Naoto Sato wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Please review the fix for the following bug. At the moment, it's not yet
>>> reflected in the bug database, but the symptom is that
>>> sun.util.resources.en package is split between rt.jar and
>>> localedata.jar, which would make it problematic in Jigsaw environment
>>
>> Can you clarify what the before and after conditions are here. I'm
>> trying to determine if this has any impact on the compact profiles
>> definitions, and also how it might impact locale-based testing for JRE's
>> that do not have localedata.jar.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> David
>>
>>> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8024332
>>>
>>> The following proposed fix is to move all "en" locales back to rt.jar.
>>>
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~naoto/8024332/webrev.00/
>>>
>>> Naoto
>