Suggested backports of JDK 7 langtools fixes to OpenJDK 6

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 3 March 2010 20:53, Martin Buchholz <martinrb at google.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 12:32, Andrew John Hughes
> <gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org> wrote:
>
>> There are still no source releases of jtharness
>> (https://jtharness.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=20).
>
> I think that bug suggested that sources be included in the binary releases,
> not that the source wasn't available.
>

See the final comment; the request is from me, the bug now apparently
means both things.  Still, neither have actually happened.

> You can get the GPL jtharness sources via subversion
> https://jtharness.dev.java.net/source/browse/jtharness/
> svn checkout https://jtharness.dev.java.net/svn/jtharness/trunk
> jtharness --username username
>

Yes, but there is no source code release (i.e. a tarball like those at
http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/).  You can approximate
this with the checkout of a tag from Subversion but it's not ideal.

> Martin
>



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