OpenJDK 6 Skeleton Plan for OSX Universal Binary

[Dalibor Topic]

On 10/28/10 2:12 AM, Landon Fuller wrote:
> 
> I would personally like to see what we can accomplish as part of the OpenJDK BSD-Port project, as well as trying to open a dialog with Oracle (and maybe Apple), if possible. I'd like to try to see what Oracle's interest is, whether they'd be willing to offer code or support, and to make sure that we're not just replicating work that they are (or will) do internally. 

Given my history with this project, I guess I'm a natural fit for the dialog part.

> Additionally, there's a lot of work that needs to be done simply to bring OpenJDK 7 (and 6) to a production-level state on Mac OS X:
> 	- Implementing proper "dual-mode" support for x86 and x86-64 JVMs
> 	- Up-to-date openjdk6 release
> 	- Re-sync with JDK7 mainline, fix Mac OS X build errors that have emerged.
> 	- Conformance testing with the TCK
> 	- Real-world usage, testing, and fixing the bugs that are uncover.
> 	- Out-of-the-box Mac OS X Integration via http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#releasenotes/Java/JavaSnowLeopardUpdate3LeopardUpdate8RN/NewandNoteworthy/NewandNoteworthy.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40010380-CH4-SW1
> 	- (Possibly) Dtrace support
> 	- (Possibly) PowerPC and ARM support via zero/shark project
> 	- AWT/Swing
> 	- Sound

Thank you for compiling the list, Landon. 

For the developers on the list that don't follow the @OpenJDK twitter feed, I should point out that 
there has been an interesting post regarding the Sound part on the sound-dev mailing list: 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/sound-dev/2010-October/000110.html - I pointed the posters 
to this list to keep the conversations around the BSD port in one place.

> Some immediate questions I have:
> 	- Is it be possible to have a more customizable home page for OpenJDK BSD-Port, specifically one where we could post binaries?

The first part is easy - send me your diffs, and I'll put them up on the OpenJDK web page. Even better´in my opinion would be to 
use the BSD port wiki (you can edit the pages directly), and add pointers to the BSD port's home page to relevant areas. ->
 http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenJDK/BSDPort could use a pointer to the list above, for example. 

OpenJDK binaries have so far been provided by distributions, like MacPorts, or packagers like OpenSCG. It'd be rather 
easy for BSD port users to put up a page on the BSD port's wiki pointing to the binaries at Macports, OpenCSG, etc, and to 
keep it up to date, I think.

cheers,
dalibor topic

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