Moving Forward with IcedTea

[Deepak Bhole]

* Andrew Hughes <ahughes at redhat.com> [2012-05-02 10:39]:
> ----- Original Message -----
> 
> snip...
> 
> > 2.  IcedTea7 for u4.
> > 
> > Oracle have already released u4:
> > http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/7u4-relnotes-1575007.html
> > 
> > I propose to sync IcedTea7 to jdk7u4 b13 (the point u4 branched) and
> > then create a 2.2 branch which can
> > then be prepared and tested for a 2.2 release.
> > 
> > PROPOSED BRANCH DATE: 2nd of May, 2012.  13h00 UTC (tomorrow).
> 
> The forest branch is now available:
> 
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea7-forest-2.2/
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea7-forest-2.2/corba
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea7-forest-2.2/jaxp
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea7-forest-2.2/jaxws
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea7-forest-2.2/jdk
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea7-forest-2.2/langtools
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea7-forest-2.2/hotspot
> 
> The corresponding IcedTea tree will be created in due course to facilitate testing.

Shouldn't we have first merged u4 into HEAD and then branched? Now we
have to do the work twice.. am I missing something?

Deepak

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