[threeten-dev] Serialization tests failed in jdk8/threeten repository

[Xueming Shen]

On 11/28/2012 03:16 AM, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
> On 28 November 2012 05:02, Xueming Shen<xueming.shen at oracle.com>  wrote:
>> (2) it will be an issue when integrated into master. "binary" data is
>> "strongly discouraged" in openjdk8 repository.
> OpenJDK does seem to have some very strange rules. Manually creating a
> byte array to hold the same data is pretty pointless.
>

It's the new rule "we" (old jdk-er) had to take when we open-sourced to 
the "open
source community". Some open source distros would not take any binary 
file in A
open source repository. They will complain and simply delete them if 
they see
coming in, that includes anything that is not ascii text. If they cannot 
read the file
with a text editor and verify it is 'open source'. So welcome to the 
open source
world:-)

Also from past experience, binary file kept in repository sometime 
really causes
troubles, triggered the virus-scan software, on Windows platform for 
example. So
they got deleted by those software automatically under certain 
configuration...

-Sherman

> The patch looks OK
> Stephen