Binary files in Nimbus (original) (raw)

Andrew John Hughes gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org
Wed Apr 8 12:58:05 PDT 2009

Peter,

Earlier today you pushed Nimbus into the JDK 7 Swing forest [1]. I'm happy to see Nimbus get in, but later on the #openjdk IRC channel Andrew Hughes pointed out that the changes include seven binary jar files [2]. When we open-sourced JDK 7 we took great pains to eliminate all binary files from the source tree, and as a matter of policy they are no longer allowed. In retrospect we could've communicated this more often and more widely, and we'll certainly do that going forward. I'm also going to look into enhancing the jcheck extension to check for binary files. In the meantime, we need to get rid of these jar files. I suggest that the best route forward is for me to do a rollback of the Nimbus changeset on the server side and then for you to rework the code so that these jar files are no longer required. I'd still like to see Nimbus in M3, and I'll support integration into a later build as long as it's okay with SQE, but removing these jar files is a higher priority. Aside from the fact that they're binary files, some of them contain code that has not been approved by Sun Legal for inclusion in OpenJDK. If anyone sees a problem with this plan, please let me know ASAP. - Mark

[1] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/swing/jdk/rev/c5cd40f1f596 [2] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/swing/jdk/file/c5cd40f1f596/make/tools/swing-nimbus/libs/

My thanks to Mark for raising this. Blobs of unknown JAR code have been a problem in the past for including OpenJDK in the GNU/Linux distributions, and it would be a shame to take a backwards step on this. These ones do just appear to be http://jibx.sourceforge.net/, so providing some way to point to the JAR files instead should be sufficient. awt16.jar can be dumped, given OpenJDK (AFAIR) is supposed to be built with a 1.6 JDK.

On the positive side, the patch applies to OpenJDK6 with a few simple modifications, and by copying across the JAR files manually to make/tools/swing-nimbus/libs, I was able to build with the following patch:

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/show_bug.cgi?id=100037

So anyone wanting to try Nimbus on OpenJDK6 today, feel free :)

Andrew :-)

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