warming up the isthmus

[John Rose]

As you can see, we have a repo forest, but with nothing special in it:
  http://hg.openjdk.java.net/panama/panama/

You can pull it by saying:
  $ hg clone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/panama/panama ~/Projects/panama
and then:
  $ (cd ~/Projects/panama; sh ./get_source.sh)

Or you can clone in one go:
  $ trees='corba hotspot jaxp jaxws jdk langtools nashorn scratch'
  $ hg tclone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/panama/panama ~/Projects/panama --subtrees $trees

We will be following the jdk9 repositories.

So what's going to happen?  We will shortly add new native interconnect logic (starting with JNR) and new data layouts (starting with an array processing package).

The bigger picture is here: http://openjdk.java.net/projects/panama/

For pushing changes, there is no formal review process.  If you are working on something, and it builds and can be tested somehow, push it so we can experiment with it.  We can always back out mistakes, since this repository will not provide changeset history directly to the JDK.

Best wishes,
— John