JEP 138: Autoconf-Based Build System

[Jonathan Gibbons]

I guess I'm sceptical that you can generate projects configurations for 
popular IDEs at autoconfig time without keeping something like a 
template for the desired configuration, in which case you've simply 
added an extra level of inconvenient indirection.

It has not been a problem to maintain the langtools project config over 
the past few years.

-- Jon


On 02/21/2012 02:40 PM, Brian Goetz wrote:
> The JEP explicitly states that these would be follow-on projects, 
> presumably to narrow the scope of this project so that it can get 
> deployed more quickly.
>
> Once the build system has a model of the project, it will be possible 
> generate projects configurations for popular IDEs at autoconfig time, 
> eliminating the need to keep IDE projects in sync with the project 
> layout.
>
> On 2/21/2012 5:35 PM, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
>> On 02/21/2012 02:10 PM, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
>>> Posted: http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/138
>>>
>>> - Mark
>>
>> Many developers use IDEs. It would seem to be a regressive step for
>> "Support IDE projects" to be a Non Goal.
>>
>> -- Jon