[threeten-dev] some makefile and test update

[Roger Riggs]

I think the point is that TimeZone and ZoneId will be using a single
timezone database and the pre-existing information is needed
for backward compatibility.

It is a separate question as to whether any information provided by TimeZone
can be dropped.

Roger


On 12/7/2012 7:04 AM, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
> In my opinion, we should exclude those IDs that are pretty useless from TZDB
> We use africa antarctica asia australasia backward etcetera europe
> northamerica southamerica
> We exclude solar and pacificnew.
>
> There will be cases where you cannot convert a TimeZone to a ZoneId
> anyway (such as user defined zones) so having some additional ones
> doesn't seem like a big deal. A bit of a clear up is part of 310's
> mission.
>
> Stephen
>
>
> On 7 December 2012 01:47, Xueming Shen<xueming.shen at oracle.com>  wrote:
>> Any reason that can not be in? since the plan is to migrate the jdk existing
>> tzdb code
>> to use/share the tzdb.jar date, probaby vis StandardZoneRules (I did the
>> prototype
>> early this year). So the tzdb.jar will need all  data jdk currently supports
>> for compatibility
>> reason. Though I'm not sure those solar files really matter or not.
>>
>>
>> On 12/6/12 4:38 PM, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
>>
>> Looks like the TZDB generation includes solar files and maybe others that
>> 310 was deliberately omitting.
>> Stephen
>>
>> On Dec 6, 2012 8:18 PM, "Xueming Shen"<xueming.shen at oracle.com>  wrote:
>>> This is proposed changeset is to
>>>
>>> (1) move the tzdb "build" stuff from the make/tool/tzcompiler +
>>> make/sun/javazic
>>> into make/javax/time/Makefile. For two reason
>>>      - make the new build infra" stuff to work
>>>      -the tzdb.jar actually has the dependency on those zone impl, so it's
>>> more
>>>       reasonable to update the tzdb.jar if those imples updated.
>>>
>>> (2) move the TestNG def from the top test properties file
>>> TEST.ROOT into the "local" test/javax/time/TEST.properties.
>>>
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sherman/jdk8_threeten/tzdbbuild_test
>>>
>>> -Sherman
>>

-- 
Thanks, Roger

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