Moving forward on jdk9

[Greg Lewis]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 03:03:50PM -0400, Kurt Miller wrote:
> On Sun, 2017-10-01 at 14:29 -0700, Greg Lewis wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > At the moment our repository is stuck around build 120, with the
> > initial
> > JDK release being from build 181.  We got stuck there due to some
> > merge
> > conflicts, and I'm not sure it is very useful to try and work around
> > them
> > given the changes there has been in the tree since then.
> > 
> > I'd like to propose the following:
> > 
> > 1. Move the current state of the repo onto a branch to propose the
> > early port that was done.  All of that work will continue to be
> > available.
> > 
> > 2. Merge with and reset the tip of the repo to match the JDK 9
> > release build.
> > 
> > 3. Merge back changes from the branch and incorporate additional
> > changes as necessary to get a working JDK9 on *BSD.
> > 
> > Comments?
> > 
> 
> No comments. Sounds good. Thanks Greg.
> 
> -Kurt

Thanks.  I'll try and get this done this week.

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