Any timeline to update to jdk7u2+

[Julien Ponge]

Thanks Mike and Henri, this clarifies a lot of points. A few people
were already reading too much into "211 has no hg tag in OpenJDK" :-)

Cheers

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Mike Swingler <swingler at apple.com> wrote:
> On Oct 5, 2011, at 12:37 PM, Henri Gomez wrote:
>
>>> The Mac port is already well beyond 211, it just hasn't been tagged in the repo. Completely separate issues. Don't put too much stock in the b-numbers just right at this moment.
>>
>> Good to know.
>>
>> How could I find the correct build number ?
>>
>> For now, I'm using :
>>
>> hg tags | grep -v tip | head -1 | cut -c 6-11 | sed 's/^[ \t]*//;s/[ \t]*$//'
>>
>> It will help everybody, users, developers and QA, when there will be
>> bug reports to know which runtime was used.
>
> Um...don't worry about it this week? Your builds come out more frequently than the b-numbers are updated...so it's really the date in the version string that matters when tracking things back to the source revision id.
>
> I agree that someone at Oracle should have tagged the repo with the b211 tag at the moment they produced a build, but they are all at JavaOne right now and it's been a little hectic pulling that developer preview together...so I'm just going to focus on fixing bugs for now.
>
> Regards,
> Mike Swingler
> Java Engineering
> Apple Inc.
>
>



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