Request to backport: JavaFileManager (original) (raw)

Andrew John Hughes ahughes at redhat.com
Tue Jun 22 15:26:40 PDT 2010

On 22 June 2010 23:12, Lussier, Denis <denisl at openscg.com> wrote: > I am NOT in any way questioning this decision. I am wondering aloud what > the general policy is for this kinda stuff. > Of course if the improved FileManger is in Oracle's JDK 6 then it's clearly > desirable for the OpenJDK project to get the fix/improvement backported from > DEV (OpenJDK7) to PROD (OpenJDK6). Is this the case here or is it some > other valid case?? > --Denis Lussier > http://openscg.org >> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Joe Darcy <joe.darcy at oracle.com> wrote: >>>> Jonathan Gibbons wrote: >>>>>> Joe, >>>>>> I would like to backport the current JavaFileManager from JDK 7 to JDK 6. >>>>>> Because of all the other work in JDK7, it is not possible to >>> automatically backport the individual changesets. Instead, I have identified >>> all the changesets of interest (see below), copied across the filemanager >>> code almost exactly as-is (I had to comment out some @Override annotations), >>> and then cherry picked the necessary edits from the various changesets to >>> make everything work. Finally, I have gone back through the original reviews >>> done for JDK7 to make sure that no edits of interest have been omitted. >>>>>> Altogether, this addresses the following set of 19 issues: >>>> Jon, >>>> Those would be fine additions to OpenJDK 6; approved to go back. >>>> -Joe >>>> It's a fairly big change, but it's early enough in the release cycle for any issues to become apparent.

Andrew :-)

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