How much has been pushed upstream?

[Mario Torre]

Il 21/09/2009 13:33, Michael Franz ha scritto:

Hi Michael,

>> You don't need anymore those patches, with the latest FontManager push,
>> everything is upstream now, so just use the Cacio repo, it's completely self
>> contained.
>>
>> So, I should use http://hg.openjdk.java.net/caciocavallo/jdk7/ ? If
> everything is pushed upstream can I also use
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7?

Well, Cacio itself is not upstream, but it doesn't require any new 
patches. It should be in sync with the current OpenJDK, but because the 
internal API is changing a lot, you may need to add or remove some 
methods, but most of the time, it's enough to either return false or do 
nothing.

>> What API you'll use for the graphics port?
>>
>> Are you referring to the internal/external option?  My understanding is
> that the internal is easier (less coding) so I will look at that.

Yeah, true, the internal it's relatively easy to do, but while the 
external is of course still an option, we are simply not developing it 
anymore, so probably it's in fact also your only option.

The hope is that new patches that come from Sun will still keep things 
separated enough so that we don't end up in the same mess that we had 
before starting the project, although we only "require" that the 
internal code itself doesn't rely on a specific implementation of the 
peers, which is in Sun's own interest anyway.

The external option was just a proof of concept, and it's really only 
interesting for projects like Classpath and Harmony, but because 
resources are limited, we are just "happy" with the current state of 
things and hope it still works :)

What I was referring to is what is the API you choose for the backend, 
for example, X11, GTK etc?

The X11 code should work well on the BSD, so you don't even need Cacio, 
if you are doing an OSX port, you may give a look at the SDL backend, it 
needs lots of love, but it should work out of the box without an X Server.

Cheers,
Mario