On May 20, 2011, at 4:20 PM, Jonathan Gibbons wrote: > >> paralyze the javac compilations > > I really really really hope you don't mean that! For other readers, I > think this should be "parallelize".
yeah yeah... make fun of the Irish guy. ;^) -kto > > -- Jon > > > > > > On 05/20/2011 07:12 AM, Kelly O'Hair wrote: >> On May 20, 2011, at 3:36 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote: >> >>> On 13:11 Fri 20 May , Kelly O'Hair wrote: >>>> We now have a Build Infrastructure project! >>>> >>>> Register for email at: >>>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/build-infra-dev >>>> >>>> The repos will be at: >>>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/build-infra/jdk7 >>>> >>>> But I haven't been able to populate them just yet, having access issues. >>>> >>>> Once the repos are primed, I hope this can get moving quickly because I >>>> want to expose >>>> what can be done to the builds in terms of turnaround improvements etc. >>>> >>>> -kto >>>> >>> Hi Kelly, >>> >>> Sorry if I missed this already, but what is the purpose of this new project? >> Once I can get the build-infra repos primed, hopefully you will see what we >> are doing. >> I don't expect this project to last past the final jdk8 efforts, it's a >> sandbox for us to experiment >> and stabilize build changes. >> >> The big goal is to make builds faster, orders of magnitude faster, with some >> major >> makefile re-writing and organization. >> An additional goal is to try and make building easier, but that part of it >> is mostly directed >> at the Solaris and Windows builds, Linux isn't that hard (in my opinion :). >> >> The reason for the project is that this will be major build changes, and we >> will need >> to experiment and share our work as quickly as possible, and openly as >> possible. >> Once the changes prove to be stable and acceptable, then we will deal with >> the transition to >> jdk8, and leave the jdk7 changes for potentially being included into jdk7u2, >> but jdk8 is >> our primary target. >> >> One sub-project will be "BuildDeps" which will try and address how the build >> dependencies are >> identified and how local installs are automated. Haven't much detail on that >> yet. >> >> The major sub-project will be a re-write of the Makefiles to remove the >> deeply nested Makefiles, >> correct the target dependencies, allow for "make -j N" to work reliably, >> share common make logic, >> paralyze the javac compilations, etc. Pretty drastic stuff, but if we can >> indeed make the builds >> orders of magnitude faster, we hope people will welcome the changes. >> >> Hopefully Fredrik and Erik will chime in for clarification when I mis-state >> things. >> >> We are looking to turn around some of this work very quickly, so it's an E >> ticket ride if >> you want to watch or join in (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_ticket). ;^) >> >> -kto >> >>> I thought we already had build-dev... >>> -- >>> Andrew :) >>> >>> Free Java Software Engineer >>> Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) >>> >>> Support Free Java! >>> Contribute to GNU Classpath and IcedTea >>> http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath >>> http://icedtea.classpath.org >>> PGP Key: F5862A37 (https://keys.indymedia.org/) >>> Fingerprint = EA30 D855 D50F 90CD F54D 0698 0713 C3ED F586 2A37 >
