RFR: JDK-8011180 : (xs) Remove obsolete scripts from make/scripts

Magnus Ihse Bursie magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com
Fri Jan 10 04:46:12 PST 2014


On 2014-01-10 11:44, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 10/01/2014 10:38, Paul Sandoz wrote:
>> Hi Mike,
>>
>> I think this is in general good move.
>>
>> IMHO a separate repo for simple tools like webrev and jcheck seems a 
>> bit much. Do you think it would be worthwhile consolidating some 
>> code-tools repos?
>>
> I wondered about that too, especially when there are other tools (like 
> normalizer.pl and update_copyright_year.sh) that might also be 
> candidates to move to the code tools project.

I agree. I was told that it was standard code-tools practice to setup a 
repo and mailing list for a new project like webrev, so that's the 
reason things look like that. But simple one-file tools could probably 
co-exist in a common code-tools repo (and mailing list), I think.

/Magnus


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