HotSpot 14

[Erik Trimble]

Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> Hi all (especially Joe),
>
> Now that the HotSpot Express repositories are available, what is the
> plan for including hs14 in OpenJDK6?
>
> I did a pull of the base changeset from HS express (0) into OpenJDK6's
> hotspot repo. yesterday as a test, and it seems to apply fairly well.
> The conflicts all seem to be whitespace changes (though there's a lot
> of them -- ~210 files are affected).
>
> Do we still plan to maintain a version of HotSpot in OpenJDK6 or will
> HS Express just be used directly?
>
> Thanks,
>   
Frankly, I think this is up to the Community.

I'm still not 100% sure of the complete list of who has write access to 
the OpenJDK6 stuff, but I /think/ the proper way to do this is not move 
any HSX release into the main OpenJDK6 forest until there is  consensus 
that It's Time.

Now, that said, maybe It's Time Right Now.


Given that the HSX repos are going to be almost exclusively Sun-only 
writable (in practice, not necessarily by design), I think that the VM 
in OpenJDK6 should be pulled from an HSX repo, and then have various 
community-desired patches applied there, rather than try to work 
directly on an HSX repo.  That is, I expect the various HSX repos to be 
a reflection of what Sun is doing, and the VM in OpenJDK6 should be a 
reflection of what the Community chooses to do with the HSX work from Sun.

As such, going forward, I _hope_ there is less and less of a requirement 
to maintain IceTea, and that everything there can get moved over into 
the appropriate OpenJDK repo.  Not that I have anything against IceTea, 
it just would be nice to cut down on the amount of work needed to 
maintain all these separate codebases.

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