DISCLAIMER: These notes are from the defunct k8 project which precedes SquirrelJME. The notes for SquirrelJME start on 2016/02/26! The k8 project was effectively a Java SE 8 operating system and as such all of the notes are in the context of that scope. That project is no longer my goal as SquirrelJME is the spiritual successor to it.
03:26
Will have to change hairball to use the compiler wrapper system, use a mount tree for the k8 source tree and a temporary storage location. Then it will have to be capable of creating a package database in the kpkg directory and be able to execute into some of those packages (notably primary-call). Then I can switch to a basic pre-made configuration type system which contains machine definitions and such (and allow configurations to be patched as needed by a user).
06:32
I will need to change the MountTree stuff so that there is a source for files and such can be another mount tree, however JAR files cannot be handled in this case. So MountTrees cannot truly be stacked.
06:50
Using MountTrees and such in hairball makes things slightly easier but a bit more complicated. It can just act relative to specific directories and the only thing it will ever use is the file based mounts and never really any JAR files. Keeping it simply files would simplify things also.
09:20
The one thing I am stuck on is target system definitions, what constitutes a system and how should they be grouped together? I would like everything in a single package and just filter things out, however that can get messy. But if I put everything in its own package that will also be messy.
09:36
Actually what I can do, is just have all of the kernel sources and such in a single location, the kernel source tree. There will be no packages because they do not make sense for the kernel. I can just have hairball go through every package and read their package-info's and normal source files and strip out any annotations from them.
10:46
Taking that and directly using a package called k8kernel in the root solves massive directories and such. Now I need a good way to sort internal stuff based on what things are.