Project Proposal: Mac OS X Port

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 30 November 2010 18:33, Dalibor Topic <dalibor.topic at oracle.com> wrote:
> I hereby propose the creation of the Mac OS X Port Project.
>
> The primary goal of this Project will be to provide a place for
> the work on the port of JDK 7 to the Mac OS X platform.
>
> In particular, this Project will serve as the initial location
> for the announced [1] contributions from Apple to OpenJDK on
> their way to JDK 7.
>
> This Project's source code forests will be initially populated
> with code from the BSD Port's JDK 7 forest.
>
> I request sponsorship from the Porters Group.  Mark Reinhold and I
> will serve as the Moderators of this Project.
>
> cheers,
> dalibor topic
>
> [1] http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/11/12openjdk.html
>
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I assume we can replace JDK7 in this e-mail with OpenJDK7?  JDK7 tends
to refer to proprietary binaries from Oracle, not the FOSS project.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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