Request for creation of OSX integration repo forest

Phil Race philip.race at oracle.com
Tue Oct 25 14:22:05 PDT 2011


I didn't say otherwise. But turns out Paul isn't talking about the OS X 
porting
project forest anyway .. he's referring to the 7ux forest, and there it 
does not.

-phil.

On 10/25/2011 2:14 PM, Michael McMahon wrote:
> Phil,
>
> Though, the X11 toolkit still builds and runs ok...
>
> - Michael.
>
> On 25/10/11 20:46, Phil Race wrote:
>> 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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