Harness source availability; was: Re: JavaSE 7 build 15 is available at the openjdk.java.net website

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Mario,

Thank you for your interest; I will adjust our internal priorities  
accordingly.

-- Jonathan


On Jul 9, 2007, at 7:35 AM, Mario Torre wrote:

> Il giorno lun, 09/07/2007 alle 07.04 -0700, Jonathan Gibbons ha  
> scritto:
>
>> However, I agree that "most" doesn't quite cut it :-)   The primary
>> reason that we have not yet released the rest of the jtreg source
>> code is a perceived lack of demand (your email is the first interest
>> I have seen) and as always, a lack of resources, which together have
>> lowered the priority on this work.
>>
>> -- Jonathan Gibbons
>
> Hi Jonathan!
>
> I think the "perceived lack of demand" was just that, perceived. Of
> course, I can only speak for myself, but I guess that many of us
> consider the tests as part of the code, that's why no one showed
> explicit interest before. As for the lack of resources, I guess that
> this have to solved inside Sun, but of course, if there is anything we
> can do, just shot :)
>
> Mario
>
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