Looking ahead: proposed Hg forest consolidation for JDK 10

[Alan Bateman]

On 12/10/2016 18:10, Phil Race wrote:
> The funny irony here is that the current arrangement you list below 
> was introduced for
> JDK7 b23 as part of the open sourcing plan (although nashorn came in 
> later) when
> we also switched from SCCS+teamware to mercurial.
>
> The last  build before that - JDK 7 b22 - had just hotspot+j2se as you 
> propose
> plus a "top-level" repo - (if you ignore the closed repos for the 
> plugin and similar).
>
> So what goes around comes around ... but I wonder if anyone remembers 
> the reasoning
> and advocacy behind splitting it in the first before we spring back to 
> how it was before ?
If I recall correctly then the HotSpot VM could be dropped into an 
update of an older release at time. A royal PITA when trying to 
coordinated changes as it meant trying to keep several combinations 
working at the same time. All in the past now.

-Alan