The Road to 1.10

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

OpenJDK b21 should be available sometime in the next month or so.  I'd
like us to release IcedTea6 1.10 about a week after, allowing time for
testing, etc.

With the change to HotSpot 19 as default (added on Tuesday), current
IcedTea6 HEAD is now pretty much inline with b21, through this and our
other patches.  So the b21 bump will be just a matter of switching to
the new tarball.  You can track progress on b21 using the hg branch:
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6-hg.

Major changes in 1.10:

* Upgrade to HotSpot 19 (on HEAD) and OpenJDK6 b21 (imminent)
* NetX and plugin removed; now in the IcedTea6 web project (on HEAD)
* Shark removed; part of HotSpot 19 (on the hg branch).
* Split of --with-openjdk into --with-jdk-home and --disable-bootstrap options (on HEAD).

I plan on doing a long-delayed sweep of patch and macro names for consistency,
but other than that, any further build changes will now be delayed until 1.11.

When b21 is released, we'll switch to it on HEAD and then branch for testing of 1.10.

Deepak, I'd like the first release of IcedTea-Web (1.0) to happen in the same timeframe
(preferably before the 1.10 release) so we don't end up with an orphaned plugin and NetX
implementation.  For my part, I still need to add some configure checks and documentation
generation to the repository which I'll try and get done over the next week.
-- 
Andrew :)

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