Security fixes are back; other fixes can go in. Time for build 18?

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 2009/11/7 Joseph D. Darcy <Joe.Darcy at sun.com>:
>   
>> Hello.
>>
>> The latest batch of security fixes have been pushed into OpenJDK 6.
>>
>> Martin and Andrew, you're clear to push your other fixes back.
>>
>>     
>
> Thanks, I'll get onto that tomorrow or Monday.
>
>   
>> Now that OpenJDK 6 has the latest security fixes, Andrew's backport of
>> Nimbus, and the new delivery model for jaxp and jaxws, that might be a good
>> amount of change to be a new build, b18.
>>
>> Is there any other work that should go back into b18?
>>
>>     
>
> I'd like to get a backport of
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/rev/d6b08bdb9a54 in.  It's a
> minor fix that Kelly found that gets rid of the superfluous -fastdebug
> build directory currently being produced by OpenJDK6 builds.
>
> Otherwise I think it's good to go.
>
> The list has been silent on the matter, but I discussed hs16 and
> OpenJDK6 with Dalibor on IRC and we agreed that it would be better to
> wait until this is more stable before bumping up OpenJDK6 to it.
> IcedTea is currently supporting it as a build option, but it isn't
> turned on by default.  One advantage to hs16 going into OpenJDK6 is
> that the Zero assembler port changeset which was recently promoted
> into b75 could be backported.  Otherwise, it needs a few things
> ripping out to work with hs14 (and then putting back when we do go to
> hs16).
>
>   
>> -Joe
>>
>>     
>
> Thanks,
>   

Joe and I have also discussed the possibility of backporting the JDK7 
javac filemanager back to OpenJDK 6, now that we have completed a number 
of significant bug fixes.  However, this should now probably wait until 
after b18.

-- Jon
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