Looking ahead: proposed Hg forest consolidation for JDK 10

[Joseph D. Darcy]

On 10/12/2016 9:25 AM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
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> Further to that, for OpenJDK 8, the relative repo sizes look like
> this (compressed):
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> -rw-r--r-- 1 andrew users 918K Aug  7 18:20 corba.tar.xz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 andrew users 6.5M Aug  7 18:22 hotspot.tar.xz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 andrew users 2.2M Aug  7 18:21 jaxp.tar.xz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 andrew users 2.2M Aug  7 18:21 jaxws.tar.xz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 andrew users  38M Aug  7 18:23 jdk.tar.xz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 andrew users 2.0M Aug  7 18:21 langtools.tar.xz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 andrew users 2.2M Aug  7 18:25 nashorn.tar.xz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 andrew users 327K Aug  7 18:20 openjdk.tar.xz
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> The JDK repository, even compressed, is over five times the size
> of HotSpot. Adding the other repos into the JDK repository thus
> wouldn't make that much of a difference to it, even if HotSpot is
> included, whereas it will cause an order of magnitude increase compared
> to the current side of the HotSpot repositories.
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> I think I'd thus prefer to see it cut down to two repositories. That
> would give most of the benefits I described of getting rid of all
> the superfluous repos, without bloating the requirements for HotSpot work.

Of course a consequence of a hotspot + everything else arrangement be 
perpetuating the current inability to make atomic HotSpot + JDK changes.

Cheers,

-Joe