Patch support for Open JDK 7

[Andrew Hughes]

On 26 March 2018 at 12:14, dalibor topic <dalibor.topic at oracle.com> wrote:
> On 26.03.2018 13:05, Andrew Haley wrote:
>>
>> On 03/26/2018 11:50 AM, dalibor topic wrote:
>>>
>>> On 26.03.2018 11:30, Andrew Haley wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Are these identical to the patch updates offered by Oracle.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> They are intended to be functionally identical, but it's impossible
>>>> for us to know what goes in to Oracle's proprietary releases.
>>>
>>>
>>> The release notes for Oracle Java SE 7 releases available to Oracle's
>>> customers through MOS or Oracle Linux are public at
>>>
>>> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/documentation/javase7supportreleasenotes-1601161.html
>>> .
>>
>>
>> Err right, but what does that have to do with the question?
>
> Just pointing out that it is possible "for us to know what goes in to
> Oracle's proprietary releases".
>

The bug system itself is also a useful source of information:

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/projects/JDK/versions/19044

I often use that to get an idea of whether we should backport a
certain issue or not.

However, I think the implication was that we can't see the actual code
being included.
-- 
Andrew :)

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