Old / New build systems strategy ?

[Paul Sandoz]

HI Henri,

I recommend you try this:

- for jdk8 use the "current/old" build system until jdk8 officially switches over to the new build system and deprecates the old one.

- for jigsaw use the "current/old" build system until jigsaw does a merge from jdk8 with the new build system that is capable of supporting jigsaw and its modules.

- for lambda use the new build system (it's what the developers of lambda have chosen to use, thats about official as it gets :-) ). By the time lambda gets integrated into jdk8 the "current/old" system may or may not be deprecated. If you have any issues building on certain platforms i would strongly recommend reporting such issues to the build infra team.

FWIW i have had no issues building lambda on my Mac.

I am not privy to any schedules regarding the new build system.

Hth,
Paul.


On Sep 24, 2012, at 7:52 AM, Henri Gomez <henri.gomez at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi to all,
> 
> Yesterday I detected a build failure on latest Lambda trunk and send a
> mail about problem to lambda-dev list.
> 
> Mike replied that problem is in old build system not updated to new
> changes and lambda team is now using new build system.
> 
> I didn't recall seeing an official announce about deprecation of old
> build system for jdk8's projects.
> 
> What's the official position of jdk8 and related projects about build system ?
> 
> Should we use new build system right now or did old (standard) build
> system is still the reference, supported and preferred build system ?
> 
> Cheers