Improving OpenJDK for FreeBSD

[David Holmes]

On 21/02/2025 2:17 am, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> Hi Harald (and others),
> 
> Great to see that you've made it this far! Sorry for the delayed 
> responses, I've been ill for a while and are starting to work through my 
> backlog now.
> 
> On 2025-02-13 12:48, Harald Eilertsen wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Feb 05, 2025 at 11:25:51AM +1000, David Holmes wrote:
>>> Hi Harald,
>>>
>>> Can you create a PR against mainline so that we can see the scope of the
>>> changes and how they have been implemented?
>> Here you go:
>> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/23611
>>
>> As mentioned in the notes for the PR, this is mainly ment to get your
>> feedback and as a draft to assess the scope, and to be a base for
>> discussing how (and if) to proceed with the port.
> 
> This was a good move. When actually integrating any code, a different 
> approach will be needed (for instance, the original writer/copyright 
> holder must be clear for every line of code that should be integrated so 
> we can check OCA acceptance). I do believe that a piecewise integration 
> is much preferable to trying to add everything once.
> 
> That will however require us to accept that we for a while are going to 
> have a port in the mainline that might not even successfully build, even 
> less work. But I think that is preferable to a big massive integration.

I would not like to see it happen that way. If it is to happen then I 
would prefer to see a project established and a project repo. This 
phased approach can be applied to the project repo and supporting 
changes upstreamed to mainline, then eventually the port itself will be 
integrated to mainline.

Cheers,
David

> That reasoning also indicates that maybe the first parts that should go 
> in is the build system changes that are needed to even try to build the 
> BSD port...
> 
> /Magnus
>