OpenJDK7 and the JavaOne preview (M3) release

[Lillian Angel]

Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 2009/5/8 Lillian Angel <langel at redhat.com>:
>   
>> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>>     
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> Sun plan to release a JavaOne preview of JDK7 on May 21st
>>> (http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/milestones/).
>>> We'd like to do a corresponding release of IcedTea7 (1.10) around the
>>> same time, that can then be packaged in any distros that wish to ship
>>> such a preview.
>>> This will involve:
>>>
>>> * Updating IcedTea7 to support the latest build drop from Sun
>>> (currently b57, which is the last non-stabilisation release).
>>> IcedTea7 is now based on the IcedTea forest
>>> (http://hg.openjdk.java.net/icedtea/jdk7) so this is a two stage
>>> process involving pulling the latest changes into the forest and then
>>> ensuring this builds with IcedTea7.
>>> * Updating Shark/Zero in IcedTea7; ideally we would put this directly
>>> into the forest, but I don't know how ready Gary is for this step.
>>> * Updating the plugin/jaxws support; again it would be nice to have it
>>> in the forest, but there probably isn't enough time.
>>> * Any additional features from IcedTea6; we're not doing mass merges
>>> any more because the two have diverged so far from each other that
>>> this has become impractical (probably lots of conflicts and build
>>> breakages for a few usable changes). Â doko and mjw have already
>>> requested that --with-additional-vms and systemtap support be added.
>>>
>>> Any help would be much appreciated. Â Integration of Shark/Zero and the
>>> plugin can be done fairly independently so if someone wants to work on
>>> this, feel free.
>>>
>>>       
>> Please add the visualvm fixes from IcedTea6 as well.
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Lillian
>>
>>
>>     
>
> Ah yeah, knew I'd forgotten something! Thanks!


Can you be sure that aph's latest lcms fix is included as well?

Thanks,
Lillian