OpenJDK 6 build 14 source posted

[Andrew John Hughes]

2008/12/4 Kelly O'Hair <Kelly.Ohair at sun.com>:
> This should be resolved after the Mercurial transition since the
> bundling logic has to change, it actually becomes much simplier.
>
> I assume a zip bundle like what has been done for openjdk7 is ok?
> e.g.
> http://www.java.net/download/openjdk/jdk7/promoted/b40/openjdk-7-ea-src-b40-20_nov_2008.zip
>
> Humm... zip was 83.6 MB, tar.gz of openjdk6 is 46 MB??? Maybe we should use
> tar.gz for both? :^(
>

And there I was thinking that nearly 40mb of code had been added... ;)

> And I suppose the openjdk7 bundle should explode into a openjdk7 directory
> and the openjdk6 bundle into an openjdk6 directory?
>

Having both do 'openjdk' would reduce merge issues between icedtea6
and icedtea7.
I've never noticed the issue with 6 as IcedTea6's build system just
does -C openjdk.

> -kto
>
>
> Andrew Haley wrote:
>>
>> Joe Darcy wrote:
>>>
>>> The source bundle for OpenJDK 6 build 14 is available for download from:
>>>
>>>  http://download.java.net/openjdk/jdk6/
>>
>> Excellent, thank you.
>>
>> May I request one small change in future releases?
>>
>> Please make the top-level item in the tarball a single directory,
>> perhaps with the name "openjdk" or "openjdk-6-src-b14-25_nov_2008".
>> This practice is fairly common in free software releases because it
>> avoids the situation where someone untars into their homedir by
>> mistake, with fairly horrible consequences...
>>
>> Andrew.
>



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