JDK 8 and PowerPC schedule

[Volker Simonis]

Hi Tiago,

unfortunately we won't make it with our port into the JDK8 GA release.
The current plan is to have the port in the first JDK8 non-security
update release (probably 8u20) which is planned to be release about 6
month after the GA release.

This is all for Java 8. For Java 7 there are no plans to integrate our
port into the main 7u codeline. Nevertheless we are trying to keep the
code in our http://hg.openjdk.java.net/ppc-aix-port/jdk7u repository
up to date (currently it should be at the level of 7u40).

And of course nobody will prevent you from building your own
distribution from http://hg.openjdk.java.net/ppc-aix-port/jdk7u and/or
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/ppc-aix-port/jdk8 :)

Regards,
Volker


On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Tiago Stürmer Daitx
<tdaitx at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> After taking a look at the JDK 8 schedule [1] and the PowerPC/AIX Port
> plan [2] I can see that they don't quite match. I'm not that familiar to
> how a JEP integrates with a major release of OpenJDK and google'ing
> didn't clarify it much.
>
> So, are you guys aiming for a specific JDK 8 milestone? If not, how does
> the integration occurs and at which point should we expect to see the
> port fully integrated into JDK 8 and 'officially' available for download
> for both users and distros?
>
> Regards,
> Tiago
>
> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8/
> [2] https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=13729959
> --
> Tiago Stürmer Daitx
> tdaitx at linux.vnet.ibm.com
> IBM - Linux Technology Center
>