JShell: source in langtools vs JDK?

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

On 17/09/15 16:59, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
> In the short term, would it help those folk actively working on the 
> kulla code base to have recent full builds of the kulla forest 
> available from somewhere (i.e, with jline and jdi present), so that we 
> can minimize any short term inconvenience until kulla is integrated?
I don't think that would help; note that the issues I pointed out in my 
writeup essentially boils down to the fact that part of the jshell 
environment (the remote agent) is insensitive to whatever parameter you 
pass on the command line when you run jshell/run tests (this is problem 
#3 in my email). As a consequence, you will be rnning some weird two 
headed beast which has some bits coming from the jshell under 
development, while other bits will fall back to the jshell version 
available in the 'recent build' (which presumably doesn't contain the 
fix/enhancement the dev is working on).

I somewhat agree that #1 and #2 *should* go away in the long run when 
modules will be fully supported; that is, assuming that -override will 
do the right thing and not (as currently with -Xbootclasspath) omit all 
classes in same package available in jimage but not in the overriding 
module (problem #1).

Maurizio