Initial forests for JDK 9 (original) (raw)

John Coomes John.Coomes at oracle.com
Wed Dec 11 15:39:47 PST 2013

mark.reinhold at oracle.com (mark.reinhold at oracle.com) wrote:

2013/12/10 6:07 -0800, joe.darcy at oracle.com: > On 12/10/2013 01:52 PM, John Coomes wrote: >> Please name the above tree "hotspot-dev" instead of "hotspot", to >> avoid having a tree with the same name as a repo contained within it. >> During jdk7 development we used http://.../jdk7/hotspot/hotspot; it >> made conversations rather awkward and somtimes lead to confusion, >> since the term "hotspot" was ambiguous. > > If we are going to have "dev" and "hotspot-dev", should we also have > "client-dev" for consistency?

Oooh, a bikeshed! Adding "-dev" suffixes everywhere is just redundant. If the hotspot forests need a prefix other than "hotspot", how about just "hs"?

Avoiding hotspot/hotspot in the path is the main concern. Whether we use "hs" or "hotspot-dev" or "hotspot-main" to do that doesn't matter much.

-John

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