Re: Need reviewers and comments: 6989472: Provide simple jdk identification information in the install image

2010-12-01 Thread David Holmes
Kelly O'Hair said the following on 12/02/10 07:26: On Dec 1, 2010, at 12:56 PM, Ulf Zibis wrote: But yes, those scenarios could be improved, but IMHO smarter with something like "java -version:java", (or interpreting the existing "java -version" output, like Eclipse does), ... and - more import

Re: Making OpenJDK builds easier

2010-12-01 Thread Erwin Vervaet
Regarding the Forest extension: Good to hear that changesets are coming in to fix those jaxp/jaxws/jaf download locations. > I can't agree with you more, but if these were the only issues you ran into, I'm actually quite pleased. Indeed. Given the complexity of the whole build I was really

Re: Fwd: Binary plugs download

2010-12-01 Thread Dalibor Topic
On 11/29/10 5:03 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote: > On 15:08 Mon 29 Nov , Dalibor Topic wrote: >> On 11/26/10 3:54 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: >>> On 11/26/2010 02:48 PM, Dalibor Topic wrote: >> Hm. It's been a long time since I heard of anyone use the binary plugs for anything. Cer

Re: Need reviewers and comments: 6989472: Provide simple jdk identification information in the install image

2010-12-01 Thread Kelly O'Hair
On Dec 1, 2010, at 12:56 PM, Ulf Zibis wrote: Am 01.12.2010 20:38, schrieb Kelly O'Hair: On Dec 1, 2010, at 11:15 AM, Ulf Zibis wrote: Am 01.12.2010 17:43, schrieb Kelly O'Hair: 4.) "properties" file vs command line option or dll usage interface: - the interpretation of the usage/opti

Re: Need reviewers and comments: 6989472: Provide simple jdk identification information in the install image

2010-12-01 Thread Ulf Zibis
Am 01.12.2010 17:43, schrieb Kelly O'Hair: On Dec 1, 2010, at 7:27 AM, Ulf Zibis wrote: b: As we have a bin\client\Xusage.txt, we additionally could have: - bin\usage.txt - bin\client\XXusage.txt - bin\Jrocket\XXusage.txt - etc. and maybe (without help text, but with well defined syntax): - bi

Re: Need reviewers and comments: 6989472: Provide simple jdk identification information in the install image

2010-12-01 Thread Ulf Zibis
Am 01.12.2010 20:38, schrieb Kelly O'Hair: On Dec 1, 2010, at 11:15 AM, Ulf Zibis wrote: Am 01.12.2010 17:43, schrieb Kelly O'Hair: 4.) "properties" file vs command line option or dll usage interface: - the interpretation of the usage/options.txt files should be optional for a launcher, b

Re: Making OpenJDK builds easier

2010-12-01 Thread Dr Andrew John Hughes
On 11:04 Wed 01 Dec , Kelly O'Hair wrote: > > Adding a CC to build-dev... > > On Dec 1, 2010, at 8:21 AM, Erwin Vervaet wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > I'd like to bring up the topic of the ease of building the OpenJDK. > > > > Let me start with a bit of background. I attended an interesting

Re: Need reviewers and comments: 6989472: Provide simple jdk identification information in the install image

2010-12-01 Thread Kelly O'Hair
On Dec 1, 2010, at 11:15 AM, Ulf Zibis wrote: Am 01.12.2010 17:43, schrieb Kelly O'Hair: 4.) "properties" file vs command line option or dll usage interface: - the interpretation of the usage/options.txt files should be optional for a launcher, but not guaranteed to work. - I propose add

Re: Need reviewers and comments: 6989472: Provide simple jdk identification information in the install image

2010-12-01 Thread Ulf Zibis
Am 01.12.2010 17:43, schrieb Kelly O'Hair: 4.) "properties" file vs command line option or dll usage interface: - the interpretation of the usage/options.txt files should be optional for a launcher, but not guaranteed to work. - I propose additional command line options to output the valid ch

Re: Need reviewers and comments: 6989472: Provide simple jdk identification information in the install image

2010-12-01 Thread Ulf Zibis
Am 01.12.2010 18:00, schrieb Kelly O'Hair: Ah, but I should be able to point people at DrainO, even though it's poison. ;^) I'm just providing a reference to a file (if it exists) that could help explain what VM's are available. If there was an official "vm.release" file, I could refer to that

Re: Making OpenJDK builds easier

2010-12-01 Thread Kelly O'Hair
Adding a CC to build-dev... On Dec 1, 2010, at 8:21 AM, Erwin Vervaet wrote: Hello all, I'd like to bring up the topic of the ease of building the OpenJDK. Let me start with a bit of background. I attended an interesting OpenJDK talk by Dalibor at Devoxx 2010 earlier this month and decid

Re: Need reviewers and comments: 6989472: Provide simple jdk identification information in the install image

2010-12-01 Thread Ulf Zibis
Am 01.12.2010 17:43, schrieb Kelly O'Hair: On Dec 1, 2010, at 7:27 AM, Ulf Zibis wrote: 1.) naming: a: What would be the name for the JRE installation, "jre.release" ? That would be a separate RFE in my opinion, easy to do but my primary target was the jdk for now. Maybe, but having the s

Re: Need reviewers and comments: 6989472: Provide simple jdk identification information in the install image

2010-12-01 Thread Kelly O'Hair
On Dec 1, 2010, at 6:28 AM, Alan Bateman wrote: Kelly O'Hair wrote: A revised proposal... Still called "jdk.release". But if people really think "jdk.properties" sounds ok, at least the names are unique and won't conflict. http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ohair/openjdk7/jdk_release2/webrev/ A

Re: Need reviewers and comments: 6989472: Provide simple jdk identification information in the install image

2010-12-01 Thread Kelly O'Hair
On Dec 1, 2010, at 7:27 AM, Ulf Zibis wrote: 1.) naming: a: What would be the name for the JRE installation, "jre.release" ? That would be a separate RFE in my opinion, easy to do but my primary target was the jdk for now. b: As we have a bin\client\Xusage.txt, we additionally could have

Re: Need reviewers and comments: 6989472: Provide simple jdk identification information in the install image

2010-12-01 Thread Kelly O'Hair
On Nov 30, 2010, at 7:31 PM, David Schlosnagle wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Kelly O'Hair wrote: A revised proposal... Still called "jdk.release". But if people really think "jdk.properties" sounds ok, at least the names are unique and won't conflict. http://cr.openjdk.java.n

Re: Need reviewers and comments: 6989472: Provide simple jdk identification information in the install image

2010-12-01 Thread Ulf Zibis
2.) jre/lib/xxx/jvm.cfg: - additionally the copyright is out of date in that file on JRE-6_21 and JDK-6_20, at least for i386. -Ulf Am 01.12.2010 02:34, schrieb Kelly O'Hair: A revised proposal... Still called "jdk.release". But if people really think "jdk.properties" sounds ok, at least t

Re: Need reviewers and comments: 6989472: Provide simple jdk identification information in the install image

2010-12-01 Thread Ulf Zibis
1.) naming: a: What would be the name for the JRE installation, "jre.release" ? b: As we have a bin\client\Xusage.txt, we additionally could have: - bin\usage.txt - bin\client\XXusage.txt - bin\Jrocket\XXusage.txt - etc. and maybe (without help text, but with well defined syntax): - bin\options.tx

Re: Need reviewers and comments: 6989472: Provide simple jdk identification information in the install image

2010-12-01 Thread Alan Bateman
Kelly O'Hair wrote: A revised proposal... Still called "jdk.release". But if people really think "jdk.properties" sounds ok, at least the names are unique and won't conflict. http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ohair/openjdk7/jdk_release2/webrev/ A Linux 64bit build should result in a jdk.release f

hg: jdk7/build/jdk: 6987107: Add variable to add to but not modify non-fcs version string

2010-12-01 Thread kelly . ohair
Changeset: fd6873594ae2 Author:ohair Date: 2010-11-30 17:46 -0800 URL: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/build/jdk/rev/fd6873594ae2 6987107: Add variable to add to but not modify non-fcs version string Reviewed-by: jcoomes, dholmes, andrew, kvn ! make/common/shared/Defs.gmk ! make/jp

Re: Need reviewers and comments: 6989472: Provide simple jdk identification information in the install image

2010-12-01 Thread Alan Bateman
Kelly O'Hair wrote: On Nov 30, 2010, at 6:13 AM, Mark Wielaard wrote: : If so, then I would leave out the confusing vendor strings from the jdk.release file. Because that isn't what people want to know. And might reintroduce the confusion. The os, arch, version of class library and runtime is