What about java.lang.invoke available in b136 ?

[Mike Swingler]

Each project does schedules and planning differently - in the macosx-port right now, we have a lot of code that needs to move rapidly (without destabilizing the build) so we are carving off chunks and migrating them piece by piece. I don't really have any schedule guidance beyond "it's going to be busy this month" as we try to clear out everything in the "Partially done - on private branch" section of <http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenJDK/Mac+OS+X+Port+Project+Status>. We are close to landing the Aqua Look and Feel, so look for that in the next day or two - but it will be broken in several key areas like Screen Menu Bar, or rendering system art, as we need to re-plumb the relationships between the Cocoa AWT and Aqua.

Regards,
Mike Swingler
Java Engineering
Apple Inc.

On Apr 5, 2011, at 3:29 AM, Henri Gomez wrote:

> Thanks to you Mike also for your reply. 
> 
> The hard side for a non core developer or individual like me is to find infos about roadmap or planning, for example to know when a given feature will be implemented or backported from trunk to bsd-port, from bsd-port to  mac-port. 
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> And also the large portions of code injected in HG in a single shot. 
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> 
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> Le 4 avr. 2011 à 21:30, Mike Swingler <swingler at apple.com> a écrit :
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>> On Apr 4, 2011, at 11:39 AM, John Rose wrote:
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>>> P.S. I am intentionally not commenting, because I don't know the details, of how Apple and Oracle and the community are dividing the work on bsd and macos.  All I know is that intelligent people are working on keeping it sane and making it better.
>> 
>> For right now, the macosx-port is generally merging upstream changes from the BSD port, since they are doing a great job of providing a stable branch off of the trunk. They fix up little issues that affect BSD and Darwin at the HotSpot and core-lib level that are different from Linux and Solaris - this allows us to focus on our hot mess of Objective-C code in the JDK.
>> 
>> This means that the stock macosx-port is not going to be bleeding-edge for HotSpot or JDK features, but it's a stable base for us to port over the proprietary Apple Java SE 6 onto.
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>> Just an FYI as well, for the next month we probably won't ask for public code reviews of our changes, since we are largely porting chunks of our Java SE 6 implementation and we are trying to keep the process stream-lined. Once this initial bring-up period is over, we will switch over to a more traditional bug/review model of development, since most of the code from that point on will be new original content.
>> 
>> Though, if you see any bugs that we need to be made aware of, please file them at: <http://java.net/jira/browse/MACOSX_PORT>!
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Mike Swingler
>> Java Engineering
>> Apple Inc.
>>