OpenJDK/hotspot browsable current source?

Y Srinivas Ramakrishna Y.S.Ramakrishna at Sun.COM
Sun Feb 22 22:18:15 PST 2009


Thanks for the intsructions, Peter! Hopefully that should
get SR going.

Yes, a cross-linked source in the manner of
OpenGrok's would be most desirable for those who want to
efficiently browse the source without cloning and
maintaining their child repo.

-- ramki

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter B. Kessler" <Peter.Kessler at Sun.COM>
Date: Saturday, February 21, 2009 5:37 pm
Subject: Re: OpenJDK/hotspot browsable current source?
To: Y Srinivas Ramakrishna <Y.S.Ramakrishna at Sun.COM>
Cc: sr at computer.org, hotspot-dev at openjdk.java.net


> When I want to browse the current sources in the HotSpot tree, I start 
> from
> 
>    http://openjdk.java.net/
> 
> click on the (tiny) "7" in "Source code / Mercurial (6, 7)" from the 
> left-hand navigation panel.  That gets me to the JDK Master forest.  I 
> add "/hotspot" to that URL to get to the root of the HotSpot tree.  
> Then I click on the "manifest" for the change (or tag, or branch).  
> That gets me to a page where I can rummage around in what I think of 
> as "the HotSpot sources.  E.g., the current one is
> 
>    http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/hotspot/file/d61c7c22b25c
> 
> and from there you can click down to, for example, 
>    http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/hotspot/file/d61c7c22b25c/src/share/vm/runtime/globals.hpp
> 
> (which I see you changed 3 weeks ago).
> 
> A bit of history: the OpenGrok instance was running on a private web 
> site registered by Tom Marble.  I assume he's let it expire.  The plan 
> was always to run an OpenGrok instance on openjdk.java.net, but I 
> don't think that's moved beyond the "plan" stage, and the plan may 
> have changed.
> 
>                 	... peter
> 
> Y Srinivas Ramakrishna wrote:
> >It seems that both the links to browsable source from
> >this page:-
> >
> >http://openjdk.java.net/groups/hotspot/
> >
> >viz. :-
> >
> >https://openjdk.dev.java.net/source/browse/openjdk/jdk/trunk/
> >
> >and
> >
> >http://opengrok.neojava.org/hotspot
> >
> >are now obsolete, with the first not pointing to
> >source that is apparently more than a year old,
> >and the second a broken link.
> >
> >Does anyone know if there's an open
> >"current" browsable source of (some suitable master
> >forest repo of) OpenJDK 7 somewhere that we can
> >link to above?
> >
> >-- ramki
> 



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