Mac OS X port - update

[Kumar Srinivasan]

On 2/3/2012 7:36 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 03/02/2012 15:28, Kumar Srinivasan wrote:
>> On 2/3/2012 3:23 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
>>> On 03/02/2012 02:10, David Holmes wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I am concerned. There was some discussion when various changes went 
>>>> into 7u-osx regarding the suitability of the changes for inclusion 
>>>> in the mainline repositories ie 7u-dev. It was my understanding 
>>>> that there would be a more extensive review and, if necessary, 
>>>> clean up process, before those changes were merged into the 
>>>> mainline 7u-dev. I have only seen that happen for a couple of 
>>>> specific issues.
>>> You're right, there were several concerns about some areas of the 
>>> code when jdk7u-osx was setup. One was the launcher and that has 
>>> since been sorted out by Kumar, another was the jnilib support, 
>>> which has 
>> Right! I am planning on forward porting these changes to jdk8, 
>> shortly. :-)
> I think Michael plans to get everything into jdk8 soon so I would 
> suggest sync'ing up with him before bringing over individual areas.

That sounds good, thanks! and I was not aware of this.

Kumar

>
> -Alan