Repository? -- How to keep JDK 10 up to date with changes in JDK 9 until JDK 9 GA?

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Wed Dec 21 08:31:56 UTC 2016


On 20/12/16 23:54, joe darcy wrote:
> Returning to this topic, after additional consideration, I still think 
> we should start JDK 10 by hg pull'ing changes in from JDK 9. In other 
> words, adopt a forward-port rather than back-port policy, at least for 
> the time being.
> 
> Under this model, engineers with a fix that had to go into both JDK 9 
> and JDK 10 would just push the fix into 9 and a separate periodic 
> process would sync the changes into 10.

I think that sounds best.

Andrew.



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