Switching to HotSpot 14 on OpenJDK6

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/7/21 Joe Darcy <Joe.Darcy at sun.com>:
> 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
>

Thanks.  That's great news :)
-- 
Andrew :-)

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