The future of OpenJDK6

[Andrew Haley]

On 03/13/2013 09:14 PM, Alex Kasko wrote:
> On 03/13/2013 09:02 PM, Andrew Haley wrote:
>>
>> OpenJDK 6 is a legacy project.  People only use it because they want
>> long-term stability and compatibility.  Therefore, only changes that
>> fix significant bugs should be made.  This is not a policy change from
>> that discussed on http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk6/
>
> Question about two features, that are not bugfixes, but may be useful in 
> jdk6:
> 
> 1) unlimited crypto support:
>   - makefile patch from jdk7 [1]
>   - maillist thread [2]
> 
> 2) missed copyMemory method in sun.misc.Unsafe:
>   - maillist thread [3]
>   - patch that I'm using in my local jdk6 builds [4]
>   - original patch that removed proper copyMemory method [5]
> 
> Are there any chances for them to be included into jdk6?

I would strongly prefer it if neither of these patches went in, but I
am open to argument.

Almost nothing would persuade me to accept 2).  This is an internal
method that no application should use.

Andrew.