Managing parallel change in JDK 8 and JDK 9

[Alan Bateman]

On 03/12/2013 09:37, Volker Simonis wrote:
> :
>
> So what will be the best way to downport something from JDK9 to JDK8.
> The only possiblity I see is again to "cherry pick"; i.e., export the
> change from JDK9 and import it into JDK8. Do you see other
> possibilities?
We do this all the time when bringing changes from jdk8 to jdk7u-dev. It 
does mean that you get a new changeset id after the import but I don't 
think that is a problem. For the AIX port then I assume that if the 
changesets are imported in the right sequence that it should be easy 
(assuming of course you get in early to avoid need to re-base the changes).

-Alan