What should the relationship between ports and developers of large projects be?

Andrew Haley aph-open at littlepinkcloud.com
Fri May 27 15:24:17 UTC 2022


On 5/27/22 15:59, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
> JEP 424 has already been integrated into mainline. As far as I know
> there were no issues as a result of that integration, as the code for
> the foreign API already has the required stubs so that it will compile
> in all the ports (even though the `Linker` might not run, but that's ok,
> at least until some effort is put into providing an implementation of
> the `Linker` class in those ports).

Yes, I see. So, it's up to the porters to set their own schedule for
implementing the Linker class.

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