Pushing changes for Update 2

[Greg Lewis]

G'day Kurt,

On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 07:50:08AM -0500, Kurt Miller wrote:
> On Mar 5, 2012, at 1:55 AM, Greg Lewis <glewis at eyesbeyond.com> wrote:
> > I've taken some time to get my bsd-port local repo sync'ed up with the
> > jdk7u2 repo.  I'd like to push what I have up into the main repo, but
> > thought it was worth talking over before I do that since I'm not a
> > mercurial guru.  Here is what I've done so far:
> > 
> > 1. Pull from the jdk7u2 repo.
> > 2. Merged and committed (this warned about creating an extra head, but I
> >   went ahead since this seemed reasonable given I was pulling from a new
> >   repo).
> > 3. Merged Linux specific changes into the BSD specific code, fixed some
> >   merge botches and committed that.
> > 
> > The result compiles on FreeBSD/i386 and runs a few examples that I tried.
> > As I said, I'd like to push this up to the main repo now.  Some open
> > questions:
> 
> Thanks for updating the tree.

No worries.  I've had some confirmation for FreeBSD/amd64 too.

> > . Should we tag or branch the current repo first?
> 
> Yes. Whatever is most similar to a cvs tag seems best so we can record our current state.

Sounds good.  Will do that.

> > . Will pushing cause any problem for anyone else?
> 
> I'm ok with it.
> 
> > . Has anyone got time to test compile it on other platforms first (or is
> >  the best thing to just push and let people test that way)?
> 
> I'd rather test after pushing and make any corrections after if needed.
> 
> > . Should we branch once we've waited for a week or so and use head for
> >  jdk7u4 merging and let any bug fixes go into a jdk7u2 branch?
> 
> I'm not sure. If we're going to have two active trees, I think branching might be the way to go for this.

Sure.  We can figure that out after a little shakedown time too.

> > . Anything I'm missing?
> 
> Sounds like a good plan to me.

Thanks!  I'll likely give it a try this weekend.

> > I expect the jdk7u4 merge to be a lot bigger since we'll need to carefully
> > integrate with the Mac OS X support that is going in.

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