Switching to HotSpot 14 on OpenJDK6

Joe Darcy Joe.Darcy at Sun.COM
Tue Jul 21 13:30:25 PDT 2009


Joseph D. Darcy wrote:
> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>> We discussed this a while back, but discussions seem to have come to a 
>> halt.
>>
>> Using the rebase extension to hg, I've succeeded in producing a
>> version of the OpenJDK6 repository based on the same 0 revision as the
>> hs14 master:
>>
>> http://fuseyism.com/hg/hotspot
>>
>> This means that pulls from the hs14 master can be used to update this
>> repository, which isn't the case with the current OpenJDK6 repository
>> as they have no common parent.  However, unlike hs14, it does include
>> all the history and fixes from OpenJDK6 (some of which don't seem to
>> have made the HS7 repos, such as deleting binary jar files).
>>
>> Does this look ok? If so, can someone with ssh access to
>> hg.openjdk.java.net please replace the current hotspot repository with
>> this one, so we can update it to the current hs14 revision and add any
>> other pending changes?
>>
>> It would be nice to finally let HotSpot development in OpenJDK6 move on!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>   
> 
> Hi Andrew.
> 
> I'll discuss this matter with Kelly when we are both not on vacation.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Joe

Hello.

I've discussed the rebasing with Mark R. and we've agreed to go forward 
with it.  Mark has offered to do the actual replacing of the repository 
contents.

Thanks,

-Joe



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