Apple Oracle OpenJDK Announcement

[Mike Swingler]

On Nov 30, 2010, at 4:02 PM, Dalibor Topic wrote:

> On 11/17/10 9:33 AM, Mike Swingler wrote:
> 
>>> On Nov 17, 2010, at 12:01 AM, Henri Gomez wrote:
>>> 
>>>>>    Our work on the private Mac OS X JDK7 port so far has always been a sub-tree of the public BSD port. Our intention is to bring the entirety of the BSD changes along with the Mac OS X port. The build doesn't get very far without the BSD changesets. :-)
>>>>> 
>>>>>    As for the targeted version of Mac OS X-specific changes, you can expect that we will use Mac OS X 10.6 as a baseline. The Mac OS X 10.6 SDK allows us to use blocks (which _greatly_ simplifies interacting with AppKit on the main thread), and has many key pieces of functionality exposed as full Cocoa API (as opposed to using private SPI or Carbon functions).
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> A very good news :)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Any date to see this changes available on hg ? 
>>> 
>>> I'm sorry, I don't have those details quite yet. This is a big change in process for both companies. Perhaps we will have more ironed out after the Thanksgiving break? I'm as eager as anyone to start breaking the _real_ build. :-)
> 
> I've gone ahead and proposed a Mac OS X porting project with my Porters Group Member hat,
> with a CFV in the Porters Group, in order to allow work on the Mac OS port to proceed as 
> quickly as possible. See [1] and [2] for details.
> 
> cheers,
> dalibor topic
> 
> [1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/announce/2010-November/000091.html
> [2] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/porters-dev/2010-November/000323.html

Wonderful! Thank you very much Dalibor!

Mike Swingler
Java Engineering
Apple Inc.