OpenJDK 6 and 6u10 features

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi Andrew,

On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 12:21 +0000, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> Yes, I can see the point of porting to 7 instead of 6 because there
> seems to be far more development effort being deployed by Sun on this
> codebase.  From the perspective of shipping a Free JDK now, this
> doesn't make sense but it does from the perspective of developing new
> code.  However, outside participation is still limited on this because
> there is no clearly defined open specification for what will be part
> of JDK 7 yet, and so no clear way for external participation in
> OpenJDK7 more than simple bug fixing.  Such bug fixes are more likely
> to occur on OpenJDK6 because this is what people will tend to run,
> given its stability.

To be honest, there are also no full free open public specs available
for JDK 6 at the moment. That is what Dalibor has been trying to fix for
the last couple of months now (at least those specs controlled by Sun): 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2008-November/003886.html

Most of those specs will be necessary for JDK 7 also of course. So
getting them liberated for 6 will definitely help with 7. And hopefully
starting with 7 we won't allow non-free closed specs anymore from the
beginning.

Cheers,

Mark