Request for creation of OSX integration repo forest (original) (raw)

Phil Race philip.race at oracle.com
Thu Oct 6 11:41:05 PDT 2011

I think there's a while to figure out what makes sense as the "stable port" will take a while to come about but someone needs to figure out what gets us where we want to be, so I wouldn't rush the implementation ..

Anyway, on openjdk we currently have

  1. macos-porting project
  2. 7u-dev
  3. jdk8

The goal has to be that #1 eventually becomes obsolete because the code is stable and is in #2 and #3

If we replace #1 with a #4: 7u-dev-osx then the question is what does that buy us ? I can suppose it is intended to be more controlled than the macosx-port but less stable than the mainline 7u-dev, until sometime later. But if we are to release a 7uN port for all platforms then we would need to make sure that the fixes going into mainline also get merged into 7u-dev-osx .. and some day we need to obsolete that. I think that there's a gap opening up already since SFAIK, the macosx-port is based 7 GA.

Also we ought to consider when this all goes into 8. There it really should go straight into 8.

-phil.

On 10/6/2011 9:37 AM, Dalibor Topic wrote:

On 10/6/11 8:16 AM, Paul Hohensee wrote:

At JavaOne, Oracle announced the developer preview of the JDK7 Mac OSX port. Apple is open-sourcing the port and Oracle plans to deliver it in a future JDK7 update release. Since the initial port will use the JDK7 code base, I'd like to propose the creation of a project repo forest for the port as a sub-project of the JDK7 update project. Once a stable port exists in the OSX project repo forest, we can request permission to push it to jdk7u. Thanks for this proposal, Paul. I posted a link to the Oracle JDK 7 Update release roadmap published at JavaOne and the corresponding press releases which give some more background information on the plans wrt to the Mac OS X port to provide some more background for this request. [1] I'd like to open up this proposal for discussion until Monday. cheers, dalibor topic [1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7u-dev/2011-October/000534.html

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