1.9 Release Series

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 28 July 2010 22:08, Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 28.07.2010 18:40, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>>
>> Remaining patches to go in:
>>
>> * Update XRender
>> * ipv6 issue:
>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2010-April/008866.html
>> * Deepak and I are working on a change to the plugin build so it can
>> be more easily replaced without rebuilding the entire JDK and want to
>> get this into 1.9.  Expect to see further discussion on the list
>> shortly.
>
> a separate source? that would be appreciated.
>

With 1.9, the plan is to produce the classes in a separate jar file
which can be rebuilt without rebuilding OpenJDK and which allows a
plugin package to be updated without touching rt.jar.
That should require minimal build changes (we already produce the
classes in liveconnect.stamp, then zip them in
liveconnect-dist.stamp), but does mean that the plugin will still be
part of the IcedTea build through 'make plugin'.

For 1.10, the plan is to spin it out into its own tree with its own
release cycle, as we just did with VisualVM. But doing that in 1.9,
especially at this stage, is too much.

> other outstanding issues:
>
>  - update to 6b21?

It doesn't exist yet.  1.10.

>  - ARM assembler interpreter; this is a regression for ARM; not
>   sure if we'll have something for 1.9, but that update could
>   be something for 1.9.1.

I'd be happy to see that fixed in 1.9.1.  But as there's no ETA for
the ARM fix, I don't think we should delay 1.9 for it.

>
> Matthias
>



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