<Swing Dev> <AWT Dev> [9] Review Request for 8056991: Provide OSInfo functionality to regression tests

[Yuri Nesterenko]

Dear friends, one more weekly reminder!
Without this (or similar) fix applied, we cannot start changes of
~60 regtests, and time is short.

Cheers,
-yan

On 09/08/2014 01:09 PM, Yuri Nesterenko wrote:
> Weekly reminder!
>
> Cheers,
> -yan
>
> On 09/01/2014 12:44 PM, Yuri Nesterenko wrote:
>> Colleagues,
>>
>> please review this minimal change to fix
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8056991
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~yan/8056991/webrev.00
>>
>> In the webrev there is an example of a test refactored.
>>
>> We need to clean up regression tests from internal
>> dependencies. One of them, dependency on sun.awt.OSInfo.java, a
>> standard (however internal) tool to provide a version
>> of current OS.
>> Here, I'm just copying the file to a test helper directory.
>> (1) no swing library class depending on OSInfo will be affected
>> (2) no public API change occurs
>> A person updating sun.awt.OSInfo in future should, however,
>> duplicate changes in this test copy as well which is an ugly
>> compromise.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -yan
>