OpenJDK6 B24

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 11:11 Fri 04 Nov     , Kelly O'Hair wrote:
> I know that we have accepted some non-bulk changesets in the past, and hotspot in openjdk6
> is a bit unusual. It's not clear to me that we will be getting many more bulk hotspot changes
> in openjdk6 as hotspot focuses on jdk7 and jdk8.

Well I did these bulk imports in the past and I was intending to do more.
Erik's mail here: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2011-October/004645.html
suggests it's feasible.

I like the idea of maintaining an OpenJDK6 fork of HotSpot much less.

As I've said before, we can't even begin to switch to OpenJDK7 as the
main JDK until Oracle make the TCK license available.  It also needs
a lot more testing on real-world apps, and most distros don't even
carry it yet.

> 
> The only email I can find is:
>   http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk6-dev/2011-October/002544.html
> 
> -kto
> 
> On Nov 4, 2011, at 10:06 AM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 
> > On 09:12 Fri 04 Nov     , Kelly O'Hair wrote:
> >> 
> >> FYI...
> >> 
> >> There has been one hotspot change added:
> >> 
> >>   http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/hotspot/rev/37b3e89b0b84
> >> 
> >> -kto
> >> 
> > 
> > Do you have a link to where this was discussed?  We usually do bulk HotSpot
> > imports for 6, not arbitrary changesets.
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