RFR: 7113349 JDK8 port to macosx

[Stuart Marks]

On 2/28/12 2:34 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 27/02/2012 23:47, David Holmes wrote:
>> General meta comment: When this stuff went into 7u my biggest complaint was
>> that it introduced a mass of new platform-specific stuff in places that
>> weren't otherwise platform specific. That still seems to be the case. I was
>> really hoping/expecting that these issues could be resolved before it was
>> merged with JDK8 otherwise they will never be fixed. Eg
>> jdk/make/common/Rules.gmk, jdk/make/common/shared/Defs-java.gmk. It seems to
>> me that many of the specializations could be placed into the
>> platform-specific gmk file(s) instead of polluting the shared ones. In some
>> case though (eg Makefiles where we have to change SUBDIR) it indicates we
>> need a better way to specialize things.

> I agree there wasn't as much clean-up done in the jdk7u-dev forest as was hoped
> but I think it would be better to do the clean-up and refactoring work that was
> suggested in jdk8 rather than as part of the forward-port. The changes could be
> back-ported to 7u as appropriate. I also suspect that it's not worth putting
> too much effort into cleaning up the make files for jdk8 as they will (we hope)
> go away once build-infra takes over.

Another meta comment: this is adding to the technical debt of the project. Not 
that this is a bad thing. I understand the urgency of getting JDKs 7 & 8 in 
synch and to get Mac builds for JDK8. But, is there a way to track these kinds 
of postponed cleanups? I suppose we could file bugs, but they'd probably get 
lost among the 2,000 other open bugs.

s'marks