OpenJDK 7 status

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Kelly,

I will be happy to help with the changes to langtools tests once we 
decide how and when to proceed.

-- Jon

On 07/14/2011 05:47 PM, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
> I took the liberty of creating a mongo webrev for the bsd changes compared to the jdk7/jdk7 forest,
> just so we have a feel for how to cut this up:
>     http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ohair/openjdk7/jdk7-bsd-changes/webrev/
>
> My suggestion on CRs (bug ids) and independent changesets to create and integrate:
>
>    * Test modifications for BSD, I'd suggest doing these separately
>       Same CR for langtools, hotspot and the jdk on fixing the testcases, low risk changes
>
>    * Source additions, might need to be pushed before selected Makefile changes
>       But this might take more review time, verifying legal notices and other picky source things?
>
>    * Makefile logic changes for BSD
>       Same CR for all repos,  Most of this is low risk.
>
>    * Hotspot changes:
>      - Wow. I'm not sure what to say to break this up.
>
> The hotspot changes will probably need to be sponsored by someone on the hotspot team, but
> if you can cut it up into sections, that would certainly help.
>
> Once we have reviews and changesets, the next question is how do we integrate the changes
> and into what, just jdk8?  Or do these changes need to go into 7u at some point?
>
> -kto
>
> P.S. Was it necessary to add all those BSD man pages? Do we really need those? Just curious.
>