Source tarballs

[Matthias Ernst]

On Jan 3, 2008 11:44 PM, Tom Marble <Tom.Marble at sun.com> wrote:

> Without an OpenJDK upstream tarball this means that the typical
> way of getting the OpenJDK source is with "hg fclone" [0].
> Which means that one would need Mercurial [1] with the Forest Extension [2]
> (and Mercurial needs python 2.4).  This is complicated by the
> fact that the Forest Extension (currently, unversioned) is only
> supported on Mercurial  0.9.3, 0.9.4, and 0.9.5.

While forest does make it easier it is not required.

I did not install forest and had good experience with simply cloning
the various repositories manually, i.e.
hg clone ..../langtools
hg clone ..../corba
...

If this were copy'n'pasteable on the openjdk homepage it might be good enough?

Matthias