[7ux-osx] Please review: 7124089: launcher refactoring

[Joe Darcy]

On 01/18/2012 07:02 AM, Anthony Petrov wrote:
> On 1/18/2012 4:33 AM, Kumar Srinivasan wrote:
>>>> Was a specification (ccc) filed for these flags ? Will this be 
>>>> documented in the help
>>>> section ? though X flags are unsupported, in the past we have 
>>>> documented them, both
>>>> in the man pages as well as "java -X", if these will be left 
>>>> undocumented should we take
>>>> the vm approach and mark it -XX ?
>>>
>>> Yes, we should have ccc requests to cover any new flags and any 
>>> platform-specific flags.
>>>
>>> If a flag is generally sensible, I'd prefer to see the flag 
>>> supported across platforms.
>>
>> Yes I agree, a ccc needs to be filed asap, and IMO the awt team should
>> be filing this, as they are aware of all the nuances of these flags.
>
> I've filed 7131038 to address this.
>
> Joe, do you think it absolutely needs an official -help output and a 
> CCC approval in 7u4 time-frame, or could it wait till e.g. 7u6?

If flags are officially supported in 7u4, then the ccc request should be 
done by 7u4; I don't expect much contention about this request so it 
should be approved quickly.

-Joe