Request for creation of OSX integration repo forest

Phil Race philip.race at oracle.com
Tue Oct 25 12:46:35 PDT 2011


Paul,

Just so you know, OpenJDK on OS X doesn't use X11.
Earlier that's all there was but now that's obsolete and its based on 
Cocoa APIs.

-phil.

On 10/19/11 12:27 PM, Paul Hohensee wrote:
> On 10/17/11 4:20 PM, Henri Gomez wrote:
>> What does it means for osx builder like me ?
>
> This is what I expect, actual process may vary a bit.
>
> The forest is a development forest, so while you ought to be able to
> build it at any given time, it's not necessarily completely stable (i.e.,
> may not pass the jcks at any given time).  Until we get the
> infrastructure in place to build an X11-based bundle that runs on OS X,
> it won't be very useful.  That'll be pretty much all makefile changes.
> Once we have that plus hotspot (which we already have in hsx/hotspot-rt),
> everyone except the client team (i.e., graphics team) will be able to 
> build
> and test on OS X under X11.
>
>> When could we try to use it for OS/X builds ?
>
> When we get the infrastructure for building on OS X done, vis. above.
>
> Paul
>
>> 2011/10/17 Paul Hohensee<paul.hohensee at oracle.com>:
>>> Thanks, Dalibor.
>>>
>>> The forest is here
>>>
>>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-osx/
>>>
>>> and the corresponding gates here
>>>
>>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-osx-gate/
>>>
>>> The jdk7u-osx forest is a clone of jdk7u/jdk7u-dev and has the same 
>>> jcheck
>>> constraints as jdk7u-dev (i.e., duplicate bugids are allowed).  The 
>>> push
>>> notification
>>> alias is
>>>
>>> macosx-port-dev at openjdk.java.net
>>>
>>> When component teams deem it advisable, they'll ask permission to 
>>> push to
>>> jdk7u-dev via the existing process.
>>>
>>> Hotspot pushes to jdk7u-osx will likely happen on the same schedule 
>>> as those
>>> to jdk7u-dev.  The initial port is wending its way through the 
>>> integration
>>> process
>>> from hsx/hotspot-rt through hsx/hotspot-main to hsx/hsx23, and will 
>>> go from
>>> there to jdk7u-osx/hotspot.
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
>>> On 10/11/11 8:59 AM, Dalibor Topic wrote:
>>>> On 10/6/11 6:37 PM, Dalibor Topic wrote:
>>>>> On 10/6/11 8:16 AM, Paul Hohensee wrote:
>>>>>> At JavaOne, Oracle announced the developer preview of the JDK7 
>>>>>> Mac OSX
>>>>>> port. Apple is open-sourcing the port and Oracle plans to deliver 
>>>>>> it in
>>>>>> a future JDK7 update release.   Since the initial port will use 
>>>>>> the JDK7
>>>>>> code
>>>>>> base, I'd like to propose the creation of a project repo forest 
>>>>>> for the
>>>>>> port
>>>>>> as a sub-project of the JDK7 update project. Once a stable port 
>>>>>> exists
>>>>>> in the OSX project repo forest, we can request permission to push 
>>>>>> it to
>>>>>> jdk7u.
>>>>> Thanks for this proposal, Paul.
>>>>>
>>>>> I posted a link to the Oracle JDK 7 Update release roadmap 
>>>>> published at
>>>>> JavaOne
>>>>> and the corresponding press releases which give some more background
>>>>> information
>>>>> on the plans wrt to the Mac OS X port to provide some more 
>>>>> background for
>>>>> this
>>>>> request. [1]
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd like to open up this proposal for discussion until Monday.
>>>> Thanks to everyone who participated in the discussion. With my JDK 7
>>>> Updates Project
>>>> Lead hat on, I think this is a good proposal, so we will go ahead and
>>>> create a separate
>>>> jdk7u-osx  forest for the jdk7u integration of the Mac OS X port 
>>>> based off
>>>> the mainline
>>>> jdk7u master, with commit e-mails heading to the macosx-port-dev 
>>>> list in
>>>> order to
>>>> keep the Mac porters up to date on the progress of jdk7u(4) 
>>>> integration
>>>> work.
>>>>
>>>> cheers,
>>>> dalibor topic
>>>>
>>>>> cheers,
>>>>> dalibor topic
>>>>>
>>>>> [1]
>>>>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7u-dev/2011-October/000534.html 
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>




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