Request for Review: 6915313

[Andrew John Hughes]

2010/1/8 Christopher Hegarty - Sun Microsystems Ireland
<Christopher.Hegarty at sun.com>:
>
> On 08/01/2010 16:32, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>>
>> ....
>>
>> For OpenJDK6, I think it would be better to port over SCTP after the
>> b18 release which is currently undergoing final testing.  So please
>> don't push anything to the OpenJDK6 repositories just yet :-)
>
> Oh, maybe the bug description is a little misleading. What this bug plans to
> do is simply reorganize the SCTP implementation in JDK7 so that it can be
> ripped out and bolted onto a standard Sun JDK6 (if that's the kind of thing
> you like to do!). There are no changes planned for OpenJDK6, just JDK7.
>
> -Chris.
>

Yeah, I got that this was a patch for OpenJDK7, but I thought the long
term goal was to backport SCTP to OpenJDK6, not just provide the hack
approach of http://openjdk.java.net/projects/sctp/html/sctp6.html with
'standard Sun JDK6' (whatever that is - I guess you mean the
proprietary Sun JDK6 builds).

I think it would be nice to provide this backport as an option with
IcedTea6.  Then users could use this with 6 out of the box.  Do you
know what impact this would have when built with OpenJDK6 (rather than
hacked into an existing proprietary build built against ancient system
libraries)?
-- 
Andrew :-)

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