Initial OpenJDK 6 code on the way

[Joseph D. Darcy]

Hello.

Among the options we considered for producing an open source Java SE 6 were:

1) Redo all license scrubbing etc., on one of our 6 train code bases
2) Undo the "7-isms" from OpenJDK 7 to produce an OpenJDK 6

We estimated the latter to be much less work; that path also means the 
OpenJDK 6 and 7 workspaces will have a more similar structure, etc. 
This rationale is discussed at:

http://blogs.sun.com/darcy/entry/forward_to_the_past

-Joe

Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
> Hi David!
> 
> Just curious... why didn't you start there, modulo the holes due to 
> encumbered code?
> 
> geir
> 
> On Feb 11, 2008, at 5:18 PM, David Herron wrote:
> 
>> Hi Geir,
>>
>> OpenJDK 6 != OpenJDK
>>
>> OpenJDK 6 began from OpenJDK b20 and undid some changes with the goal 
>> of getting it to a point where it passes JCK6a.  We aren't quite there 
>> yet, and that's still the goal.
>>
>> - David Herron
>>
>>
>>
>> Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
>>> as someone not following the project too closely, what does that mean?
>>>
>>> Isn't the code already available?
>>>
>>> geir
>>>
>>> On Feb 11, 2008, at 2:53 PM, Joseph D. Darcy wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello.
>>>>
>>>> FYI, Sun plans to release the first source drop for OpenJDK 6 later 
>>>> this week:
>>>>
>>>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk6-dev/2008-February/000001.html 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -Joe
>>>
>>
>