merging BSDPort into jdk mainline

[Mike Swingler]

On Jul 28, 2011, at 12:14 PM, Henri Gomez wrote:

>>> He means exactly what he said.  JDK8 is an official product produced by Oracle, and the BSD-port code will be merged into that product. So that Mac OS X can become an officially supported platform.
>> 
>> ok thanks, I wasn't aware that BSD code into JDK7 wasn't already in such case.
> 
> Another question about JDK7/8, bsd-port (and so macosx-port).
> What about support of processors arch like PPC and ARM via Zero project ?
> Could we expect JDK7 (or may be JDK8) to have Zero Project in the mainline ?

It is not the goal of anyone at Apple to support these architectures. I am not in a position to say if anyone at Oracle is interested in doing the work for ancient PPC Macs. If someone in the community would like to put in the effort, I would suggest they speak up now.

Regards,
Mike Swingler
Java Engineering
Apple Inc.