How to update Sumatra repos to JDK9?

[Eric Caspole]

Hi everybody,
Any news on this? It is OK with us to wipe out the existing Sumatra and 
start over with a clean JDK9 if that is easier for you.
Thanks,
Eric


On 05/14/2014 09:18 PM, John Rose wrote:
> On May 14, 2014, at 3:19 PM, Caspole, Eric <Eric.Caspole at amd.com
> <mailto:Eric.Caspole at amd.com>> wrote:
>
>> What is the best way to update the Sumatra JDK to be based on JDK9?
>>
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/sumatra/sumatra-dev
>>
>> I have been experimenting with different merges all afternoon but
>> nothing seems good. I updated Sumatra to jdk8-129 in February, but
>> JDK9 was forked after jdk8-120 so it is pretty messy.
>>
>> Is there an easier way to complete the merge with JDK9 or is it better
>> to start over?
>> I think it would be OK to start over with a clean JDK 9 clone and we
>> can add back our changes.
>
> I agree.  If the base repos are forked (jdk8 -> jdk9) this downstream
> repo should fork also.
>
> We need to put in some sort of blacklist to prevent an old changeset
> from getting written back into the new repo contents.  I think John
> Coomes knows a way to do this.
>
> — John