Woohoo! langtools becoming module aware

[Jonathan Gibbons]

On 05/21/2010 08:45 AM, Dalibor Topic wrote:
> Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
>    
>> This means that while developing new features in javac, we can just
>> build and use a temporary module library containing the langtools
>> modules, without having to rebuild all of JDK.
>>
>> Pretty nifty, huh?
>>      
> Indeed!
>
> cheers,
> dalibor topic
>
>    

Thanks.

So what're the vibes about providing Ant task wrappers for jmod and 
jpkg?  Is anyone looking at this yet, and if so, how sophisticated are 
we thinking -- see my earlier email about having these commands support 
efficient repeated use.

Where should such tasks live?  Currently, JDK does not provide general 
purpose Ant tasks, but there are a few custom tasks hidden in those 
parts of the build that use Ant. If it is just langtools wanting to use 
<jmod> and <jpkg> I'll write and provide tasks sufficient to the needs 
of langtools as langtools build tools, but in time, I would hope such 
tasks become more generally applicable.

-- Jon