RFR: JDK-8011180 : (xs) Remove obsolete scripts from make/scripts

Stuart Marks stuart.marks at oracle.com
Fri Jan 10 15:38:42 PST 2014


Hi Mike,

Removing the scripts as you proposed, for the reasons you've given, is a fine idea.

On 1/10/14 4:46 AM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> On 2014-01-10 11:44, Alan Bateman wrote:
>> On 10/01/2014 10:38, Paul Sandoz wrote:
>>> IMHO a separate repo for simple tools like webrev and jcheck seems a bit
>>> much. Do you think it would be worthwhile consolidating some code-tools repos?
>>>
>> I wondered about that too, especially when there are other tools (like
>> normalizer.pl and update_copyright_year.sh) that might also be candidates to
>> move to the code tools project.
>
> I agree. I was told that it was standard code-tools practice to setup a repo and
> mailing list for a new project like webrev, so that's the reason things look
> like that. But simple one-file tools could probably co-exist in a common
> code-tools repo (and mailing list), I think.

I certainly think this is a worthwhile issue to discuss, probably on the 
code-tools-dev mailing list.

s'marks



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