Differences between OpenJDK 8u and IcedTea8

[Volker Simonis]

Hi,

I've just realized that ojk8u-dev currently doesn't build correctly if
configured with "--with-zlib=system". This was surprising to me,
because I know that most  (all?) Linux distributions link their ojdk8
packages dynamically against the system provided libz (and I could
verify this on my Ubuntu machine).

So I took a peek at the IcedTea 8 repo [1] and found that this issue
was fixed there since a long time ago [2]. I was also surprised to see
that the IcedTea 8 jdk repository actually contains quite some fixes
and downports which are not in OpenJDK 8u yet [3] (e.g. HiDPI
support).

Now that Red Hat is leading the OpenJDK 8 updates project, is there
any specific reason (except the lack of time :)) why you still keep
these changes in IcedTea instead of pushing them upstream to
jdk8u-dev?

Thank you and best regards,
Volker

[1]  http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea8-forest/jdk
[2] http://icedtea.classpath.org//hg/icedtea8-forest/jdk?cmd=changeset;node=c5b4565befea
[3] http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea8-forest/jdk/search/?rev=PR1&revcount=100