Hello,
There are no plans in this area but we are certainly open for
suggestions. Generating IDE project files is definitely something we
want to support. We just haven't gotten to it yet.
The removal of ALL_SRC_DIRS was for code simplification in the makefiles
and because javac has changed the way it wants the source roots
specified in jake. I did not realize there was an external dependency on
this construct.
/Erik
On 2016-01-25 13:43, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
Hi,
the current build system in JDK 9 has a way to recover all the source
dirs for a given module, by doing something like this:
$(call ALL_SRC_DIRS,$(mod))
That is, the build system exports a function that can be passed a
module name and will return all the source roots for the module with
that name.
This is an extremely helpful piece of functionality when building
things like IDE support - as one can leverage the knowledge of the
build system in order to put together an IDE projects with the right
paths in it, regardless of the OS and ARCH (details which are all
taken care of by the build itself).
I see that this functionality is now removed from the current jigsaw
build - which instead declares a sequence of (dynamically defined)
targets to compile a module with name xyz; as a result, the variables
containing the source roots for xyz are not exported anymore, thus
severely impacting usability from 3rd party build tools.
What is the plan in this direction? Is there any talks about having
the build system export a pseudo API for querying variables (source
roots, generated sources, output dirs) for a given module w/o
compiling them?
Thanks
Maurizio
