2008/1/18, Mark Hindess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I've committed r612947 with the trickiest part of the icu dll > restructuring now. Hopefully I've not broken too much. > > A clean (pre-fetch-depends) classlib svn tree shrinks from 542M to just > 265M. Of course, some of it will be added back by fetch-depends but > even so that is a massive improvement.
Well done, thank you! > > Thanks to Tim for prompting me to do this - though typically it turned > out to be a can of worms[0]. There is no evil without good, and Well begun is half done ;) Actually, I'm also experiencing some troubles implementing the subject proposal, stumbled at trying to fit everything and everyone :( Finally decided to pilot the drlvm first, then see how to approach jdktools and classlib. -- Alexey > > Regards, > Mark. > > [0] http://www.answers.com/topic/can-of-worms > > On 17 January 2008 at 11:31, "Alexey Petrenko" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks, Mark! > > > > SY, Alexey > > > > 2008/1/16, Mark Hindess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > On 16 January 2008 at 15:53, "Alexey Petrenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > wrote: > > > > 2008/1/16, Alexey Varlamov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > 2008/1/9, Mark Hindess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > > > > > > On 9 January 2008 at 19:07, "Alexey Varlamov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > l.co > > > > m> wrote: > > > > > > > Folks, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > We did a few iterations refactoring the subject - let's have one > > > > > > > mo > > re a > > > > ccess > > > > > > > ;). > > > > > > > Why? There was a desire to have the following: > > > > > > > 1) More fine-grained control over dependencies to empower > > > > > > > modularit > > y; > > > > > > > 2) Unified approach and shared scripts across Harmony modules - > > > > > > > VMs > > , > > > > > > > classlib, jdktools; > > > > > > > 3) Reduce duplication of resources (traffic, space, etc) between > > > > > > > modules within the same workspace; > > > > > > > I'd also add 4) If possible, reuse resources in different > > > > > > > workspace > > s. > > > > > > > This would be quite handy for committing purposes and for > > > > > > > multi-platform development. > > > > > > > > > > > > I like all of the above but would add Tim's suggestion from a few > > > > > > wee > > ks > > > > > > back which I think was something like: > > > > > > > > > > > > 5) Move binary dependencies - like all the icu libs - from the > > > > > > enhanc > > ed > > > > > > to the standard tree in svn and download them via http as we do > > > > > > other > > > > > > dependencies during the fetch-depends stage. > > > > > > > > > > +1. Checking out tens of megabytes of unrelated binaries is really > > > > > anno > > ying > > > > ! > > > > +1 > > > > > > I started looking at fixing this earlier today ... making steady > > > progress but I've just got a new laptop so I am a little distracted now. > > > > > > -Mark. > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
