RFA: 8044235: src.zip should include all sources
Severin Gehwolf
sgehwolf at redhat.com
Fri Oct 5 11:34:30 UTC 2018
On Fri, 2018-10-05 at 11:15 +0100, Seán Coffey wrote:
> Severin,
>
> this is approved for jdk8u-dev.
Thanks, Sean!
Cheers,
Severin
> Regards,
> Sean.
>
> On 27/09/18 13:20, Severin Gehwolf wrote:
> > Hi Sean,
> >
> > On Thu, 2018-09-27 at 12:42 +0100, Seán Coffey wrote:
> > > Severin,
> > >
> > > this is an enhancement and as such should be accompanied by an
> > > enhancement backport approval template :
> > >
> > > http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8u/enhancement-template.html
> > >
> > > I've long been a fan of bringing this back to jdk8u-dev also. This one
> > > is currently in review. In the interim, please log an enhancement
> > > request so that we can track such requests.
> >
> > Thanks, done:
> > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk8u-dev/2018-September/007919.html
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Severin
> >
> > > regards,
> > > Sean.
> > >
> > >
> > > On 26/09/2018 17:43, Severin Gehwolf wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Please approve this backport request for 8044235 so as to include all
> > > > sources in src.zip produced by the build. It will only include all
> > > > sources when OPENJDK is defined. So it should be OK for Oracle JDK
> > > > builds.
> > > >
> > > > I should mention that this increases the size of src.zip from about
> > > > 25MB to 50MB. With that being said, src.zip is supposed to help Java
> > > > developers stepping through their code. Randomly omitting sources for
> > > > some classes while including others does not make a lot of sense.
> > > > OpenJDK is *open source* after all. We are in 2018 (do those extra 25MB
> > > > really matter?). Downstream consumers can remove src.zip from their
> > > > bundle if they're concerned about size. In Fedora, we have been using
> > > > this patch for years. There, src.zip is in a separate package so not
> > > > everybody gets it by default. Problem solved :)
> > > >
> > > > Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8044235
> > > >
> > > > Patch is the same as for JDK 9:
> > > > http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/jdk/rev/5cab03c4e5f9
> > > >
> > > > Original review thread is here:
> > > > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk9-dev/2014-May/000785.html
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Severin
> > > >
>
>
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