JEP 175: Integrate PowerPC/AIX Port into JDK 8 (original) (raw)

Volker Simonis volker.simonis at gmail.com
Sat Feb 2 03:03:48 PST 2013

On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 8:11 PM, Phil Race <philip.race at oracle.com> wrote:

As previously discussed on porters-dev the current target is not the first

JDK 8 release but rather the first non-security update (i.e. something like JDK 8u2)

Given the scale and timing, isn't JDK 9 a more appropriate target ? The goal of a JDK 8 update 2, should be stabilisation, and this sounds rather the opposite. It also introduces logistic issues like ramping up infrastructure which in my experience can't solved all that quickly. Well, the MacOS X port made it into 7u4 and we're of course keen to do it better:)

What do you mean with "ramping up infrastructure":

I think we have most of these allocated (except the Oracle part which I can not speak about:)

-phil.

On 2/1/2013 5:57 AM, Volker Simonis wrote: On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 12:15 PM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com>** wrote:

On 1/02/2013 8:11 PM, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:

Posted: http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/****175<http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/**175> <http://openjdk.java.net/**jeps/175 <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/175>>

I'm forced to send this to porters-dev but I do not subscribe to that list (so it will probably get held up). Given the way the JEP tasks have been split it would seem much more appropriate to me for discussions to occur on hotspot-dev and core-libs-dev as this, as the JEP says, is about the integration effort not the porting effort. Yes, I agree. I just wanted to wait until the JEP was published before posting it to the appropriate lists That said this is also relevant to jdk8-dev, also cc'd, as it affects all JDK 8 development. I have trouble seeing how such a large effort can be assimilated within the timeframes of the Java 8 schedule.

As previously discussed on porters-dev the current target is not the first JDK 8 release but rather the first non-security update (i.e. something like JDK 8u2) Regards, Volker David - Mark

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