Repopulating icedtea.classpath.org/hg/pulseaudio (was Re: RFC: PR1050 - Stream objects not garbage collected?)

[Omair Majid]

On 06/28/2012 07:20 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> I don't think taking it upstream to OpenJDK8 is the right approach.
> It won't solve this problem (fixes will still need to go across at
> least three trees).  In fact, it'll make things harder as we'll then
> need to get reviewer approval and an Oracle bug ID for every fix.

Yeah, this is quite unfortunate. But it's also true for all other code
that we push upstream (including zero).

> I think a better approach would be to reinvigorate the IcedTea PulseAudio
> repository or, preferably, setup an upstream OpenJDK project for it,
> as you suggested on IRC.  Having it tied to specific JDK versions is a
> maintenance nightmare.
> 
> I believe IcedTea-Web has worked out well under its current model and
> the PulseAudio addon would do well to follow in its footsteps.
> 

What about splitting it and moving it back to
icedtea.classpath.org/hg/pulseaudio then. It can be maintained there for
multiple icedtea versions/releases. Does anyone have any concerns or
objections?

Unlike icedtea-web, which runs standalone, we will need to modify
configure in icedtea{6,7,8} to accept paths to the built pulse-java jar
and so so it can be integrated properly.

Cheers,
Omair