[OpenJDK 2D-Dev] Request to backport fix for 6708392 to openjdk6

[Joe Darcy]

Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 2009/9/11 Joseph D. Darcy <Joe.Darcy at sun.com>:
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>> Hello.
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>> For fixes that have been soaking in JDK 7 for a while, there is a
>> presumption of their validity.  So by default I'm happy to have additional
>> such fixes backported to OpenJDK 6, assuming the change is appropriate for
>> the release, doesn't change the API, etc.
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> So if a changeset has appeared in, say two or more build drops, we can
> just commit it to OpenJDK as long as it doesn't add API?  Or am I
> reading too much into this statement?
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That would be too much; some at least cursory review is still needed.

-Joe

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>> -Joe
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>> Martin Buchholz wrote:
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>>> Hi SunToolkit.setOverrideRedirect team,
>>>
>>> Google engineers have found that
>>> 6708392: Provide internal API to create OverrideRedirect windows, XToolkit
>>> is a showstopper bug,
>>> (for folks using NX on Windows or Mac)
>>> and that the fix in openjdk7 fixes it,
>>> when trivially backported to openjdk6.
>>>
>>> Many thanks to Brian Duff for the hard work of
>>> testing and debugging.
>>>
>>> I'd like to commit this fix to openjdk6.
>>>
>>> Webrev:
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>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~martin/webrevs/openjdk6/SunToolkit.setOverrideRedirect/
>>>
>>> Martin
>>>
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