Should we rename the MASTER forest?

Andrew John Hughes gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org
Thu Nov 8 20:25:09 UTC 2007


On 08/11/2007, David Herron <David.Herron at sun.com> wrote:
>
>  Roman Kennke wrote:
>
> Hi Mark,
>
>  Given all this I hereby propose that we rename the MASTER forest
> simply
> to "jdk7".
>
>  One thing I don't understand is, why is something in the repository URL
> named with a release (-like) number? Is the repository only made for
> JDK7, and we start a fresh one for JDK8? Doesn't seem to make much sense
> to me. Why not simply drop the '7' and name it 'jdk'? My personal
> favorite is 'openjdk' though. IMO the URLs should read like:
>
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/openjdk/<sub-repo>
>
> /Roman
>
>
>
> I'm thinking a similar thing.
>
> But, the team practices Mark alluded to also includes having a new MASTER
> for each release.  There's the MASTER for 1.4, for 1.5, for 6, and for 7
> and so on.  I think that would mean over time the URL's would read
>
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/openjdk7
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/openjdk8
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/openjdk9
> ...
>
> - David Herron
>
>

Is there a reason for that? Because it seems non-sensical to me and I guess
to all other non-Sun folks.
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Andrew :-)

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