On 2013-10-31 03:20, David Holmes wrote:
On 31/10/2013 1:01 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
So is the plan to do all of this in jdk8 before RDP2?
I think this is better targeted to 9 and 8u20. Any subtle mistakes are
unlikely to show up until promoted builds are done by RE. This is not
a P1-P3 issue.
I'm not sure there is a definite plan for this. Personally, I'd prefer
to have this fixed in JDK8, but I'm also aware that the timing is not
ideal. Unfortunately, some groups were still using the old build system
until very recently, so we have been unable to do this before.
I realize that there is a risk in removing the old build system, and
that it is increased by doing it late in the game. But there is also a
risk with keeping a deprecated and defunct copy of the build system around.
I don't know who should call the shots on this. The release team, I
guess. I started adding some arguments in favor of doing this earlier
rather than later on JBS, see
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8027566. If you have opinions
either way that you want the release team to see, please add them there.
/Magnus
