OpenJDK 8 + lambdas build for OS X

[Henri Gomez]

2011/11/17 Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com>:
>> 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.
>>
>> So it may not be possible to build a combined jdk8 + lambdas at the
>> moment. (Brian, please correct me if I'm wrong).
>
> Not trivially.
>
> But, the changes in the lambda forest are almost exclusively to the compiler and adding new library classes; we pull from jdk8 to lambda regularly.  No Hotspot changes, or changes to existing libraries.  So such a merge should be quite practical.

As I said, I'd like to try with a bsd-port, not the full Cocoa / MacOSX port