Request to backport: JavaFileManager

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 22 June 2010 23:12, Lussier, Denis <denisl at openscg.com> wrote:
> I am NOT in any way questioning this decision.  I am wondering aloud what
> the general policy is for this kinda stuff.
> Of course if the improved FileManger is in Oracle's JDK 6 then it's clearly
> desirable for the OpenJDK project to get the fix/improvement backported from
> DEV (OpenJDK7) to PROD (OpenJDK6).  Is this the case here or is it some
> other valid case??
> --Denis Lussier
>   http://openscg.org
>
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Joe Darcy <joe.darcy at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>> Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
>>>
>>> Joe,
>>>
>>> I would like to backport the current JavaFileManager from JDK 7 to JDK 6.
>>>
>>> Because of all the other work in JDK7, it is not possible to
>>> automatically backport the individual changesets. Instead, I have identified
>>> all the changesets of interest (see below), copied across the filemanager
>>> code almost exactly as-is (I had to comment out some @Override annotations),
>>> and then cherry picked the necessary edits from the various changesets to
>>> make everything work. Finally, I have gone back through the original reviews
>>> done for JDK7 to make sure that no edits of interest have been omitted.
>>>
>>> Altogether, this addresses the following set of 19 issues:
>>
>> Jon,
>>
>> Those would be fine additions to OpenJDK 6; approved to go back.
>>
>> -Joe
>>
>
>

It's a fairly big change, but it's early enough in the release cycle
for any issues to become apparent.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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