[OpenJDK 2D-Dev] Add optional support for using the system libicu

Phil Race philip.race at oracle.com
Wed Jun 5 20:50:35 UTC 2013


Heavens no. Its a blessing. I sometimes do development work in 7 because
I can't get the new build to work, or to work the way I want.
I don't think I've ever gotten it to build on Windows.
The old build saves me time, disk space and repo maintenance headaches.

-phil.

On 6/5/2013 1:40 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 05/06/2013 19:02, Phil Race wrote:
>>
>> Yes, please support the old build system.
> Is this really necessary? The old build is a tax and we really need it 
> to die. In this case, it's a new feature and I don't see any point in 
> anyone spending time adding this support to the old build.
>
> -Alan




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