Backporting features [was Re: RFR (11u, XXL): Upstream/backport Shenandoah to JDK11u]

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 17/02/2020 18:41, Claes Redestad wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2020-02-17 19:31, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>> As Andrew Dinn has already said well, and in greater detail, the onus
>> for divergence can not rest solely on the shoulders of the OpenJDK
>> project.
> 
> I did not imply otherwise, just pointing out that this is a reality the
> OpenJDK must take into consideration regardless of who's to blame. All
> I'm saying is that exasperating the divergence might not be in the best
> interest of either party.
> 
> /Claes
> 

True, and this is something we have taken into consideration and
continue to do so.

My key point is that such considerations are inevitably limited when one
is comparing against a black box.
-- 
Andrew :)

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Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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