Regular sync-ups from the upstream?

[Ben Evans]

I'd like to echo this.

I'm trying to write a patch to java.util.regex.Pattern, which
implements methods for use with lambda expressions, to make using
regexps easy in Java 8.

Unfortunately, I have a couple of problems:

1) The lambdas repo doesn't currently support Mac.

2) The JDK 8 repo (which is what we've cloned to github for the Adopt
OpenJDK project) doesn't support the current implementation of lambdas
- it's a couple of versions behind.

If we could get the build changes into lambda, so it will build on
Mac, I would be a happy man.

Thanks,

Ben

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 3:48 AM, Aleksey Shipilev
<aleksey.shipilev at oracle.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> It seems the lambda/lambda is the frontier of concurrency development
> these days. Both Doug had locked jsr166 to be compilable with the latest
> lambda/lambda, and me as well locked java-concurrency-torture to be
> compilable with the latest promoted build of jdk8-ea-lambda. (These
> address compilation of all these fancy lambda-enabled APIs).
>
> With the headlines like that, I'm going to ask regular sync-ups with the
> upstream to bring more goodness from regular channels, including
> non-lambda-specific j.u.c.*/HotSpot changes. Many of j.u.c. changes are
> pushed directly into jdk8.
>
> Example: @Contended already accessible in jdk8-b75 (promoted Jan 31),
> but not accessible in jdk8-lambda-b76 (promoted Feb 05?),
> jdk8-lambda-b77 (promoted Feb 11?).
>
> Maybe I'm missing some part of the plan to integrate lambda/lambda to
> upstream jdk8 completely, which will move the development back to
> mainline, and the whole issue would be nilled out.
>
> Thanks!
> -Aleksey.
>
>