Update on JDK 10 repo consolidation; third generation prototype published at http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk10/consol-proto

[Thomas Stüfe]

Hi Joe,

On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 12:26 PM, Thomas Stüfe <thomas.stuefe at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Volker Simonis <volker.simonis at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Joe,
>>
>> generally looks good!
>>
>> I don't know if this has discussed before, but in my opinion the
>> top-level src/ directory looks a little overloaded. Wouldn't it make
>> sense to place all the modules into their own 'src/modules/'
>> subdirectory?
>>
>>
> I agree with Volker.
>
> While I prefer the one-repo approach and think this is the right
> direction, I am surprised that the directory structure changes so much. Why
> can we not keep the old structure, or at least the "jdk" super directory?
> Switching from forest to one repository will be disruptive enough without
>  these structural changes.
>
>
>

Okay, I read JEP 296 again, and the proposal for the new file structure is
right there. We missed it apparently, focusing instead on the
one-repository issues.

So, this is my own fault for not reading the JEP closely when it was still
in discussion. Sorry for the noise.

Kind Regards, Thomas

Should jdk10/consol-proto build out of t he box or are there any known
>> issues? I'd like to give it a tray on AIX and Linux/ppc64 but if there
>> are any known, generic problems I'll wait until they get fixed.
>>
>> Thank you and best regards,
>> Volker
>>
>>
>
> Thank you and Kind Regards, Thomas
>
>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 8:36 PM, joe darcy <joe.darcy at oracle.com> wrote:
>> > On 8/25/2017 1:52 PM, joe darcy wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hello,
>> >>
>> >> A follow-up to the most recent update [1] on the JDK 10 repo
>> consolidation
>> >> efforts, September 2017 is almost upon us and that month remains the
>> target
>> >> to implement the repo consolidation.
>> >>
>> >> First, a third generation prototype having tags from both JDK 9 and
>> JDK 10
>> >> will be published in the near future.
>> >>
>> >
>> > [snip]
>> >
>> > Third generation prototype with tags from JDK 9 and JDK 10 available for
>> > browsing at:
>> >
>> >     http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk10/consol-proto/tags
>> >
>> > Please sent comments by Wednesday, September 6.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > -Joe
>>
>
>