Hotspot shell games

Erik Trimble Erik.Trimble at Sun.COM
Thu May 28 18:21:38 PDT 2009


Kelly O'Hair wrote:
> Erik,
>
> If this information is publicly out there already, point me at it.
> Otherwise, it would be really nice to know what Hotspot is in what
> jdk6 or jdk7 release, where the repo is available at, and maybe
> a flow diagram as to how changes get from one to the other.
>
> Between the odd situation with openjdk6, the hsx repos, the jdk7
> hotspot forests, and the built hotspots delivered into jdk6uNN releases,
> it's quite confusing.
>
> The page at http://openjdk.java.net/groups/hotspot/
> would be an ideal place to put it, which is so old it still refers
> to svn access. :^(
> Let me know if you need the magic formula to update the webpages.
>
> -kto

That's eminently rational. What are you doing, injecting reason into this?

<wink>

I'll talk to you offline about getting that page updated with all the 
relevant info.

For now, though, we need to decide how to handle HSX vs Open6 vs. IceTea.

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