Latest instructions on getting and patching

[Charles Oliver Nutter]

John Rose wrote:
> On Apr 10, 2009, at 12:10 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
> 
>> We really need some enterprising non-Sun individual to start  
>> publishing
>> binaries (hint, hint).
> 
> Indeed.  (nudge, nudge)
> 
> BTW, the main body of method handle support (all meth-NNNN.patch) is  
> now pushed to a sub-integration area (hotspot-comp), and will in due  
> course be part of the OpenJDK snapshot binaries.  But this will always  
> be weeks or even months behind any given change in the mlvm patch  
> repository.

Is there any possibility of the Java-level APIs getting pushed out as a 
sun.something package? I know we can't shove java.* things without the 
JSR, but if there were any chance of a hotspot-only meth/indy getting 
into Java 6 some day it would be a great thing.

- Charlie