OpenJDK 6 build 14 source posted

[Joe Darcy]

Hello.

On 12/03/08 01:49 PM, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 11:38 -0800, Joe Darcy wrote:
>   
>> The source bundle for OpenJDK 6 build 14 is available for download from:
>>
>>    http://download.java.net/openjdk/jdk6/
>>     

[snip]

>> * Upgrading the HotSpot in OpenJDK 6 from HotSpot 10 to HotSpot 11 [2]
>>     
>
> We are discussing whether or not to update to this for icedtea6 or skip
> it completely and go with HotSpot 14 (which is already the default now).
> I see the hotspot tests for 10 were removed and some new ones added. The
> newer hotspot in jdk7 has even other tests. In icedtea we have combined
> them all to have a bigger set of tests (there are 20 now). It might be
> an idea to do the same (and push the hs 10 and hs 11 tests towards
> hotspot in jdk7).
>   

I think it is useful to at least have the HS11 sources published in 
OpenJDK 6 to give the option of using the same version of HotSpot as 
currently being used in 6u10 and 6u11.  However, as previously discussed 
on the list, going forward the HotSpot team has agreed to use the same 
code base for OpenJDK 6 and the 6 update release; that transition will 
occur with HS 14 sometime early in 2009.  I hope this new arrangement 
will both keep OpenJDK 6 more up to date as well as reduce overall bug 
porting efforts.  (Unlike HS 10 and HS 11, HS 14 is already in Mercurial 
so the initial OpenJDK 6 HotSpot Mercurial repository will probably be 
retired once this switchover occurs.)

>> This will be the last teamware based source drop; all future source
>> drops will be based on the forthcoming public OpenJDK 6 Mercurial
>> repositories.
>>     
>
> Thanks, looking forward to it.
>   

Me too :-)  Within the next few days, I anticipate having information 
about the timeline for publishing trial read-only repositories so any 
problems can be sorted out before we start to use the final read-writes 
ones.

-Joe
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