Magnus,
Thank you for your reply.
On 09/02/16 09:57, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
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?
We can surely expose an API if there is such a need. However, it needs
to be driven by an explicit need.
+1. With recent build changes the JDK IDEA project is dead, even
with JDK 9. We need to get this up and running again, as quickly as
possible. I know there are, at least, double digit numbers of developers
using the project.
Is there anything else you'd need
apart from a list of all source roots for a given module?
For now, this is the main requirement ( I am not aware of others ).
Once we get this resolved, the plan is to get the IDEA project pushed
to the JDK 9 mainline where it can be evolved and maintained, as
appropriate.
-Chris.
