OpenJDK 8 + lambdas build for OS X

[Dalibor Topic]

On 11/17/11 2:02 PM, Ben Evans wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My understanding is that lambdas are currently a separate hg forest
> (to allow the lambdas team to go faster), and that the team will be
> bringing code across from lambdas into jdk8 mainline, and then
> rebaselining.

Yeah, in general in OpenJDK we tend to create new Projects for new
major features (like a mac port, or this one ... ;)- that allows 
the team of people working on a feature to work in splendid isolation 
until the feature is ready to get merged into a mainline release. 

So Lambda (& Jigsaw) are in their own Projects with their own 
hg forests. Note that Mike & Maurizio synced up the lambda forest
with JDK 8 recently: 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/lambda-dev/2011-November/004128.html
so creating such builds should be easier then before, but given that neither
Lambda nor the Mac Port are integrated into JDK 8, you'd have three fast
moving parts to deal with, so it wouldn't necessarily be trivial:
Just potentially a bit easier then a few weeks ago. ;)

cheers,
dalibor topic

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