> On Jun 8, 2017, at 9:35 AM, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote: > > On 08/06/2017 17:18, Igor Ignatyev wrote: >> Alan, >> >> I totally agree there are many places which we need to clean up in >> testlibraries, including these weird dependencies, but it would be much >> easier to clean up test libraries after they are merged in one place. >> personally I don't think that NetworkConfiguration depending on Platform is >> a problem, I'd even say that NetworkConfiguration reimplementing methods >> from Platform is a problem. however even if we remove such dependencies now, >> one harmless refactoring of test libraries might get us back to instability >> of test results. it seems Jon has some ideas how to improve this situation, >> Ioi and I had several discussions about that as well, I believe we can come >> out w/ an elegant solution for this problem quite soon. meanwhile I'd echo >> Jon and recommend to apply these fixes to solve our current test execution >> problem. > I assume the issue with Platform is that it's using jdk.test.lib.Utils. If > that dependency is removed (and it looks trivial) then would it reduce the > @build usage in your patch?
yes, it will remove some of @build actions, and this dependency seems to be unneeded and easy to remove. I'll remove it by a separate RFE and then refresh my patch. -- Igor
