OpenJDK 6 build 14 source posted

[Joseph D. Darcy]

Mark Wielaard wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 11:41 +0000, 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...
>>     
>
> Yes, I agree that would be nicer (please include the whole version in
> that case, so you can easily unpack different versions in the same dir).
> But please do give a little warning, I, and I assume others, have
> various scripts now that depend on the current layout. And even on the
> naming of the current tar.gz files - the change from underscores to
> dashes broke some stuff in the past for example - don't you love
> unintentional interfaces :)
>   

Yes, we should come up with a consistent naming/bundling scheme for 
OpenJDK 6 and 7.

> Also please do publish the MD5 sums for the tar.gz files. Currently we
> have the strange situation that there are no published .zip files (as
> far as I can see on http://download.java.net/openjdk/jdk6/) but the
> checksums file contains MD5 sums for the zip files (not the
> published .tar.gz files).
>   

Checksums for the tar.gz have been added to the bundles download page:
http://download.java.net/openjdk/jdk6/

We've fixed the script bugs which led to this omission.

-Joe