Where is openjdk 8 repos?

David Holmes David.Holmes at oracle.com
Tue Jul 5 03:50:59 UTC 2011


On 5/07/2011 12:12 PM, Charles Lee wrote:
> I am trying to build openjdk 8 locally. And I found from the mailing list
> that there are lots of commits into different repos, for example:
>
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/jdk
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/2d/jdk
>
> Do 2d and tl (tl == tools?) behave like other forest which hold the commit
> locally? Is jdk8/jdk8 the real openjdk8 repository and it will merge the
> commits from 2d, tl or any other forests?

jdk8/jdk8 is the "master" forest. tl and 2d are examples of group forests 
(the tools and libraries group and java2D group respectively). The group 
forests are merged up to the master forest periodically and then have all 
other changes pulled back down into them. Different group forests 
synchronize with the master at different times. I don't know if there is a 
schedule in place yet for JDK8.

David Holmes
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> There are some commits in tl not be merged into the jdk8. Some of them are
> changing minor versions, which makes it more like jdk8 :-)
>



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