JDK-8025705

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Fri Apr 25 08:26:47 UTC 2014


On 04/25/2014 08:48 AM, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> Yes, it's bad if we "pollute" OpenJDK makefiles with references to 
> Oracle, but the damage really is already done since we already have all 
> this Oracle specific stuff in them, just hidden under a "not-open" 
> label. I think we should indeed make it explicit rather than pretending 
> it's not there.

It might actually be better from the POV of the non-Oracle community
to expose as much of the closed build as possible.  At the moment we
can't tell that we might break things we can't see: at least if they
were visible we'd have a clue.

Andrew.



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