Please update http://openjdk.java.net/jtreg/build.html

[Jonathan Gibbons]

On 12/13/2013 02:28 AM, Richard Warburton wrote:
> Hi,
>
>     Looks like this has just been fixed in jtharness 4.5. Woohoo!
>     That's the good news. The bad news is that that Oracle will
>     not piublish binaries for jtharness 4.5 or later. So I guess we'd
>     better start checking out the build instructions for jtharness
>     as well.
>
>
> Do releases of these projects get tagged in the mercurial repo?
>
> Looking at the jtreg repo [0] I can see a series of build numbered 
> releases and only starting at 4.1 but no history of released code.  Is 
> this due to jtreg being historically somewhere else?
>

Hi Richard,

Yes.  jtreg was not Open Source before jtreg 4.1: the code for these 
early releases is not publicly available.

The first few OS releases were via source bundles, so I initialized the 
Mercurial repo with the contents of these bundles.  The intervening 
changesets in the closed version of the repos are not publicly available.

Now, all dev work on jtreg uses the OpenJDK code-tools/jtreg Mercurial 
repo.   There are occasional tags which represent occasional 
checkpoints. Unfortunately, we cannot publish binary builds 
corresponding to these versions, but they do correspond to the versions 
used within Oracle. Generally, internally, we use the latest tagged 
build (i.e. jtreg4.1-bNN) with a few brave folk being prepared to use 
the tip.

And, FWIW, the need to stay on the 4.1 bNN numbering system has gone 
away so I expect that going forward, we will revert to a more 
conventional numbering system.

I am aware that I have not written up some of the newer features (like 
test groups.)  We are also working on a major update to the tag spec, 
but without some form of time dilation effect, there are not enough 
hours in the day for the people involved.

-- Jon


> regards,
>
>   Richard Warburton
>
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> @RichardWarburto <http://twitter.com/richardwarburto>
>
> [0] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/code-tools/jtreg/tags