Looking ahead: proposed Hg forest consolidation for JDK 10

[Joseph D. Darcy]

On 10/12/2016 3:17 PM, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
>
>
> On 10/12/2016 03:04 PM, Mikael Vidstedt wrote:
>>> On Oct 12, 2016, at 9:06 AM, Andrew Hughes <gnu.andrew at redhat.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>> Even after a potential repo consolidation I would expect it to be 
>>> possible to only (re-)build the hotspot component, without having to 
>>> necessarily recompile the rest of the JDK (the current build system 
>>> already supports this). It may also be possible to import/export it 
>>> into an existing JDK, but it should be noted that we do not in any 
>>> way guarantee that the end result will work as intended unless the 
>>> code for the pre-built JDK matches the Hotspot code. As Joe 
>>> mentions, we have made several potentially breaking changes like 
>>> that over the last few years - I did at least a couple of breaking 
>>> changes myself related to the Unsafe cleanup.
>>

[snip]

>
> Ditto from LangTools.  Currently, those of us working on the javac and 
> javadoc (in particular) can use a simple Ant script to (re)build just 
> the modules in the langtools/ repo. Yes, it's do at your own risk, and 
> not guaranteed to work, and requires maintenance, but I would expect 
> that such mechanisms will continue to work after the consolidation.

Yes, the intention is to allow all the existing build targets to still 
work post consolidation.

Cheers,

-Joe