Should we rename the MASTER forest?

[Xiomara.Jayasena at Sun.COM]

Andrew John Hughes wrote:

>
>
> On 08/11/2007, *David Herron* <David.Herron at sun.com 
> <mailto: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.

How so? There are parallel releases going on or active at the same time.

For instance there would be a URL for jdk6 and jdk7 in the above. 

I am unclear how that is unclear to you?  ;-)

-Xiomara

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