Question about FileManagers in Jigsaw.

[Jonathan Gibbons]

On 03/13/2012 12:55 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 13/03/2012 16:27, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
> One thing about separate repos is that partial builds (if they are 
> supported) would need be able to reconstitute the modules that would 
> otherwise be built if these repos were present. Either that or the 
> jmod packages must be present in the import JDK.
>
> -Alan

It was my understanding from build-infra that partial builds would be 
supported, differently. You would always need access to a full forest, 
but you would be able to do a build of the form, "build here that forest 
over there, substituting my repo here"

-- Jon