[threeten-dev] some makefile and test update

[Xueming Shen]

To avoid blocking the progress. I have updated the changeset to only
build the threeten specific zones for now. Will figure out the best approach
later when we migrate the j.u.TimeZone data.

-Sherman

On 12/07/2012 08:26 AM, Xueming Shen wrote:
> On 12/7/12 4:04 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 have to be there for compatibility, if the existing j.u.TimeZone is to
> migrate to use the threeten tzdb.jar (which is the plan for now). It's not a small
> deal to remove something from the jdk/jre, even if they are "useless" for almost
> everyone. It isn't for TimeZone->TonzId case, it's for TimeZone to still have the
> data for those "useless" zones. I can take them off for now, if you prefer, as we
> are not adding in the code to use tzdb.jar for TimeZone now.
>
> -Sherman
>
>>
>> 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
>>>
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