Mercurial 1.7+ Forest Extension vs subrepos
Today I thought I would try to build openjdk from source. Following the guide it says to install Mercurial 0.9.4 or newer, and also install the Forest Extension. The initial link for forest has a broken link for download, and a email to the maintainer bounced with unknown domain. The alternative link for a version post-1.0 release, does work, but the extension fails on Mercurial 1.7. I've supplied a patch to that version [ http://bitbucket.org/pmezard/hgforest-crew/overview/] and hopefully the openjdk documentation will work as currently document shortly. Whilst trying to get the Forest Extension working, it appears the preferred solution from Mercurial 1.7 onwards is to use subrepos which will be maintained by mercurial instead of via a plugin. So openjdk might need to switch to using subrepos and/or change the documentation too. I thought I'd let people know as I thought building from source might have issues, but I never thought getting the source in the 1st place would be the issue, which might put people off who want to help. John
On 11/7/10 8:22 PM, John Patrick wrote:
Today I thought I would try to build openjdk from source. Following the guide it says to install Mercurial 0.9.4 or newer, and also install the Forest Extension. The initial link for forest has a broken link for download, and a email to the maintainer bounced with unknown domain. The alternative link for a version post-1.0 release, does work, but the extension fails on Mercurial 1.7.
Thanks, John. I'll update the documentation to point to https://bitbucket.org/gxti/hgforest instead, as that version works with 1.7 for me. cheers, dalibor topic -- Oracle <http://www.oracle.com> Dalibor Topic | Java F/OSS Ambassador Phone: +494023646738 <tel:+494023646738> | | | Mobile: +491772664192 <tel:+491772664192> Oracle Java Platform Group ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG | Nagelsweg 55 | 20097 Hamburg ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Rijnzathe 6, 3454PV De Meern, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz, Marcel van de Molen, Alexander van der Ven Green Oracle <http://www.oracle.com/commitment> Oracle is committed to developing practices and products that help protect the environment
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