OpenJDK6 Repositories

[Andrew John Hughes]

2008/12/8 Kelly O'Hair <Kelly.Ohair at sun.com>:
>  * They should match the contents of the OpenJDK6 source bundles, except:
>    - No control directory, these files are in the top repository now
>    - Previously you had to 'cd control/make && gnumake', now just 'cd . &&
> gnumake'
>    - README-builds.html is in the top repository, it's movement has created
>      a little confusion in the changesets, ultimately we will have one copy.

This causes issues with supporting the new hg tree in IcedTea as the
patches are against paths with the control subdirectory present.  Is
the intention for 6 to now follow 7 and not have a control directory,
and will this extend to future bundles?

>  * Contributed changes should be documented in the changeset comments,
>    if the contribution information is missing please let me know
>  * These repositories were created from the TeamWare workspaces and a set
>    of patches and documentation on those patches, we may have to re-create
> them.
>    If we re-create repositories again, the old ones will not be related
>    to the new ones.  So any changesets you create with your clones
>    should be viewed as temporary until the final repositories are put in
> place.
>  * The hotspot repository may be completely replaced when we upgrade to
> HS14,
>    so when that happens you may need to re-clone the hotspot repository.
>

Why not just pull from the latest HotSpot tree to JDK6?  Or will JDK6
dispense with a HotSpot directory altogether?

> Please let me know if you see anything wrong with these repositories.
>

Apart from being quite slow, they seem to work ok so far.  It took two
goes to get a checkout, the build stalled and eventually timed out on
jdk.

> The target date for official repositories is next week, once it is official
> we can add more changesets to correct problems, but we can't go back and
> change the changesets already created.
>
> -kto
>

-- 
Andrew :-)

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