JDK7 Mac OS X Port integration into 7 updates

[Henri Gomez]

One point in moving macosx-port to jdk7u-osx is 32/64 JVM.

macosx-port is universal (32/64bits) whereas jdk7u-osx is 64 VM only.

Allready discussed in these lists and I still didn't understand why
OSX should have 64bits only VM.

2011/12/9 Andrey Pikalev <Andrey.Pikalev at oracle.com>:
> We are moving towards the goal of making the Mac OS X platform one of the
> standard supported platforms for JDK7 updates. Before we push Mac specific
> code into the jdk7u forest we want to stabilize the code in the integration
> forest jdk7u-osx, which is a logical child of jdk7u-dev. Doing so reduces
> the risk of destabilizing jdk7u on any other platform.
>
> We have merged most of the macosx-port changes into the jdk7u-osx forest.
> After we make sure jdk7u-osx is buildable on all platforms, we plan to
> freeze the macosx-port forest and move the Mac port development into
> jdk7u-osx.
>
> This will result in two major changes in the development process. The first
> is that Mac OS X Port development will be managed by jdk7u rules starting on
> the official move date.  The second is that we will freeze the Mac OS X Port
> JIRA instance on java.net and continue the bug tracking by regular JDK means
> (i.e., Bugster).
>
> We very much want to have macosx-port contributors join the jdk7u/jdk7u-osx
> project as contributors, authors, committers, and reviewers. The process
> will be managed by Dalibor in the next few days.
>
> --
> Dalibor Topic,
> Paul Hohensee,
> Andrey Pikalev