OpenJDK7 and the JavaOne preview (M3) release

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/5/26 Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp.org>:
> On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 09:37 +0100, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>> > Thanks for finding and fixing this.  I narrowed it down to
>> > X11SurfaceData on Friday (a diff between the non-xrender and xrender
>> > versions showed this was the only place with a change that would make
>> > any effect), but it was too late to find a fix.
>>
>> BTW, this demonstrates an issue with importing additional code where
>> the upstream isn't tracking JDK7 updates...
>
> That is precisely what these patches do, make sure the code tracks jdk7
> so it can be included in IcedTea7.
>

Yes, but my point was we wouldn't have run into this issues if
upstream was keeping pace with jdk7 development.  We have to be
careful which projects we import if we're going to end up maintaining
them over successive jdk7 releases, which happen on a weekly basis.

Clemens, can you look into incorporating Mark's changes upstream?

> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
>

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :-)

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