<Swing Dev> Binary files in Nimbus

[Mark Reinhold]

Peter,

Earlier today you pushed Nimbus into the JDK 7 Swing forest [1].  I'm
happy to see Nimbus get in, but later on the #openjdk IRC channel Andrew
Hughes pointed out that the changes include seven binary jar files [2].

When we open-sourced JDK 7 we took great pains to eliminate all binary
files from the source tree, and as a matter of policy they are no longer
allowed.  In retrospect we could've communicated this more often and more
widely, and we'll certainly do that going forward.  I'm also going to
look into enhancing the jcheck extension to check for binary files.

In the meantime, we need to get rid of these jar files.  I suggest that
the best route forward is for me to do a rollback of the Nimbus changeset
on the server side and then for you to rework the code so that these jar
files are no longer required.

I'd still like to see Nimbus in M3, and I'll support integration into a
later build as long as it's okay with SQE, but removing these jar files
is a higher priority.  Aside from the fact that they're binary files,
some of them contain code that has not been approved by Sun Legal for
inclusion in OpenJDK.

If anyone sees a problem with this plan, please let me know ASAP.

- Mark


[1] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/swing/jdk/rev/c5cd40f1f596
[2] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/swing/jdk/file/c5cd40f1f596/make/tools/swing-nimbus/libs/