RFC: Change name of default HotSpot to 'default'

Andrew John Hughes gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org
Thu Feb 12 08:13:15 PST 2009


2009/2/12 Andrew John Hughes <gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org>:
> This patch renames the name of the default HotSpot patch
> set to be 'default' rather than the specific version.  We
> should of course document what that version is elsewhere.
> I propose it either tracks 7 or we at least update to the latest
> b14 release as there are some bug fixes (I'll do this in a
> subsequent patch).
>
> Ok to commit?
>

The motivation for this patch is that we otherwise have to do an
equivalent change every time we want to change the HotSpot revision.
It also makes it clearer which patches will be applied, should an
option not be passed to configure.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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