Request for Review: 6915313

[Christopher Hegarty -Sun Microsystems Ireland]

Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 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).

Yes, this is correct.

> 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)?

I think building the SCTP source with OpenJDK6 should not be a problem.

-Chris.