2009/8/24 Christian Thalinger <Christian.Thalinger@sun.com>:
Greg Lewis wrote:
G'day Christian,
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 04:05:58PM +0200, Christian Thalinger wrote:
Hi (mostly Greg)!
I wanted to ask at what intervals a merge with upstream is done? I guess it's just a matter of spare time and actually doing it. Maybe I could help with that task, but then I'd need commit rights.
I'd like to do them every time there is a build tag in the main repository, but it ends up depending a lot on my available free time (which is very low at the moment).
I think it would be great if you wanted to help out with it, I have no problems with you getting commit rights.
Very good. Get me commit rights and I will do the merging :-)
Btw. what do you think of using Mercurials rebase extension[1]? I think it would be more straight forward as the base repository would be exactly the same (no changesets in between) and the BSD changes on top of it.
This seems to have worked ok in moving the OpenJDK6 HotSpot repository to a common base with the other HotSpot repositories, but I was under the impression that the BSD repo. was already based on JDK7? As Greg mentions, there are regular updates from JDK7 going into BSD.
Furthermore it would be nice to integrate some patches to be able to build on Linux and Solaris out-of-the-box (again). This would be very helpful for the MLVM project, as it currently is based on the bsd-port.
That's a definite goal. Our tree needs to still be compilable on Linux and Solaris for the BSD changes to get merged into the main tree. I'm happy to commit any patches for this.
OK, I will try to collect them and post them here for review.
[1] http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/RebaseExtension
-- Christian
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