2015-04-01 10:33 GMT+02:00 Magnus Ihse Bursie <magnus.ihse.bur...@oracle.com>: > The build system currently uses make to build OpenJDK. This is a technology > that has been around for decades, and in places this legacy clearly shows. > > An alternative build tool, Ant, is based on cutting-edge technology. Compared > to the native GNU Make, Ant is based on Java™ technology, which makes > portability issues a thing of the past. Ant is also directed using modern XML > systems, with well-defined tags, compared to the aged and idiosyncratic > Makefile syntax.
To be honest, I'm pretty disappointed by this move. In 2015 and with the advancements in the JVM technology, I would have expected that OpenJDK would be able to know how to build itself *without* a build tool!! :) Mario -- pgp key: http://subkeys.pgp.net/ PGP Key ID: 80F240CF Fingerprint: BA39 9666 94EC 8B73 27FA FC7C 4086 63E3 80F2 40CF Java Champion - Blog: http://neugens.wordpress.com - Twitter: @neugens Proud GNU Classpath developer: http://www.classpath.org/ OpenJDK: http://openjdk.java.net/projects/caciocavallo/ Please, support open standards: http://endsoftpatents.org/
