Getting jdk7 changes into jdk8

Kelly O'Hair kelly.ohair at oracle.com
Tue Jun 7 09:42:50 PDT 2011


On Jun 7, 2011, at 9:00 AM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:

> OpenJDK8 should be all OpenJDK7's changesets plus
> some more.

That's what I thought too, and that should be true for everything but hotspot.

The ideal world is one where this is always true, my initial email was an attempt at stopping
arbitrary developers from just importing jdk7 patches willy nilly instead of formally pulling them in.

-kto



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