Question about FileManagers in Jigsaw.

[Kelly O'Hair]

On Mar 13, 2012, at 9:32 AM, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:

> On 03/13/2012 09:27 AM, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
>> On Mar 13, 2012, at 7:52 AM, Fredrik Öhrström wrote:
>> 
>>>> There are details to work through. Another thing about the new build, and
>>>> something that Jon mentioned recently, is that the jaxp, jaxws and corba
>>>> repos will need to be compiled much later than they are done now (they
>>>> are compiled with the bootstrap JDK/javac today).
>>> Moving the jaxp, jaxws and corba into the jdk build makes sense even
>>> without jigsaw.
>>> 
>>> //Fredrik
>> Not sure we want to fold corba, jaxp, and jaxws sources back into jdk repository. We worked hard to untangle them.
>> I'm not completely against the idea, but we need to be very careful here and think this through.
>> My preferences at this point is to leave them as separate repos and try and work with them that way.
>> 
>> -kto
> 
> I completely agree that we do not want to reorganize the repos here, and we have never considered that.
> 
> However, it would be best if these repos could be built after the base module has been built, so we may have to go back and forth between the repos to get the right build sequencing. While that would be a pain with the existing SUBDIRS-style build, I was hoping/assuming it would be easier with the flat-Makefile-style build, in which make figures out the proper build order based on the dependencies -- i.e. the way make is supposed to be used.

My feelings too.  I see no choice but a bootstrap sequence (or graph of dependencies really) that involves multiple visits to
the repositories. It deserves some thought and probably a great deal of experimentation.
Although jigsaw might be triggering the need for an overall 'build graph' re-design, the build-infra-dev project should
probably be a major driving force, once we have all been jigsawized. ;^)

The name jigsaw had nothing to do with that SAW movie did it? That's a serious disturbing movie, hope they aren't related. ;^)

-kto

> 
> -- Jon