Mac OS X port - update (original) (raw)

Artem Ananiev artem.ananiev at oracle.com
Mon Feb 6 08:38:33 PST 2012

On 2/3/2012 11:11 PM, Jim Holmlund wrote:

On 2/3/2012 7:40 AM, Kumar Srinivasan wrote: On 2/3/2012 7:36 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:

On 03/02/2012 15:28, Kumar Srinivasan wrote:

On 2/3/2012 3:23 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:

On 03/02/2012 02:10, David Holmes wrote:

I am concerned. There was some discussion when various changes went into 7u-osx regarding the suitability of the changes for inclusion in the mainline repositories ie 7u-dev. It was my understanding that there would be a more extensive review and, if necessary, clean up process, before those changes were merged into the mainline 7u-dev. I have only seen that happen for a couple of specific issues. You're right, there were several concerns about some areas of the code when jdk7u-osx was setup. One was the launcher and that has since been sorted out by Kumar, another was the jnilib support, which has Right! I am planning on forward porting these changes to jdk8, shortly. :-) I think Michael plans to get everything into jdk8 soon so I would suggest sync'ing up with him before bringing over individual areas. That sounds good, thanks! and I was not aware of this. I wasn't aware of this either. Is this official, and we don't need to port our own changes to jdk8?

Right now, JDK8 doesn't contain Mac OS X specific code, it cannot be built or run on Mac, so I don't see how individual fixes can be fw-ported. Instead, I would expect bulk migration from 7u to 8 similar to what Michael/Alex did for macosx-port to 7u-osx and 7u-osx to 7u-dev.

Thanks,

Artem

- jjh

Kumar

-Alan

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