Hotspot shell games

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/5/29 Erik Trimble <Erik.Trimble at sun.com>:
> 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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> Erik Trimble
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>

Simplest solution would be to just remove it from OpenJDK6 and use HSX
as the upstream.  I don't see an advantage to pulling in to OpenJDK6,
given there is already a 'stable' branch of HSX.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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