OpenJDK6 B31 Now Available

[Omair Majid]

* Alex Kasko <mail at alexkasko.com> [2014-04-19 14:26]:
> I noticed changes in AWT code and some of them seem like
> Windows-only. What is the reasoning behind porting Windows changes
> like these ones [1, 2] ? As I understand, windows changes themselves
> kind of unintended. Maybe they contain changes to shared code that
> will be used in Linux and the Windows-specific changes are ported
> just as parts of the commits?

Andrew Hughes might be in a better position to answer what happened in
this case.

In general, the security patches are taken from 7u and sometimes don't
apply to 6 as is. So we backport additional patches until the security
patches apply. The Windows patches don't get any special treatment; we
just backport whatever is needed until the security patches apply
properly.

> I am trying to build it on Windows and these AWT changes have some
> discrepancies. Windows AWT code in jdk7 was changed heavily and it's
> hard to make these "partly-backported" version compilable. Could you
> please advise me, what is the better way to fix this - I can either
> try to backport more required AWT changes from jdk7 or to revert
> some of these changes from jdk6?

In the interest of longer-term maintenance, I think it's better to get
closer to 7 rather than further away from it. I would strongly recommend
backporting additional changes from jdk7 to jdk6. If you can point me to
the patches, I can include them in jdk6.

Thanks,
Omair

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