[11u] Proposal: Switch jdk11u development to Git/Skara with 11.0.13 cycle
Andrew Dinn
adinn at redhat.com
Fri Feb 12 17:39:39 UTC 2021
On 12/02/2021 16:37, Severin Gehwolf wrote:
> Don't get me wrong, moving JDK 8u to git is doable, but it'll need some
> more thought than 11u.
That's what I was thinking.
> My preference would be to do it in steps:
> 1.) HG forest -> monorepo conversion (using JEP 296 scripts)
> 2.) HG -> git conversion using Skara tooling (should take care of
> proper metadata, etc.)
Yes, I think this is the right way to go about it. If nothing else
because the tools for the second step assumed that the first one had
happened.
The really tricky differences I see happen at step 1 (although they
might have a knock-on effect at step 2)
JEP 296 had to relocate all the java code into modules
JEP 296 did not have to retain (and therefore relocate) all of the
java code we need to keep in jdk8u (corba?, jaxb?, jaxws?)
I don't suppose these differences would be impossible to sort out but I
think they would require some effort.
regards,
Andrew Dinn
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