On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:22:06PM -0800, Mike Swingler wrote: > On Nov 16, 2010, at 10:22 PM, Greg Lewis wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 01:35:31PM -0500, Denis Lussier wrote: > > > >> Seems like great news. I'm interested to hear from folks like Landon > >> & Greg how they think this alters the path forward for OpenJDK 6 & 7 > >> on present and older versions of OSX. > > > > I don't know the answer to that yet. The first I heard of it was the > > announcement. Just based on the announcement Oracle is going to pull in > > changes from Apple, so it's not clear to me how the current MacOS X port > > within the BSD port fits in there, if at all. That would be disappointing > > if it doesn't result in broader BSD support, but that is unclear at the > > moment. > > Our work on the private Mac OS X JDK7 port so far has always been > a sub-tree of the public BSD port. Our intention is to bring the > entirety of the BSD changes along with the Mac OS X port. The build > doesn't get very far without the BSD changesets. :-)
Mike, that is great to hear :). I'm interested in helping out if that is feasible, although as you mention in a later email there is much to work out between Apple and Oracle with regards to process and so forth first. > As for the targeted version of Mac OS X-specific changes, you can expect > that we will use Mac OS X 10.6 as a baseline. The Mac OS X 10.6 SDK > allows us to use blocks (which _greatly_ simplifies interacting with > AppKit on the main thread), and has many key pieces of functionality > exposed as full Cocoa API (as opposed to using private SPI or Carbon > functions). By blocks you mean Grand Central Dispatch, yes? > >> --Denis Lussier > >> Founder & Chief Architect > >> http://openscg.org > >> > >> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Eric Richardson <ekrichard...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >>> Hi All, > >>> > >>> I hope this is appropriate to send this along. > >>> > >>> http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/11/12openjdk.html > >>> > >>> Eric > >>> > >>> > > > > -- > > Greg Lewis Email : gle...@eyesbeyond.com > > Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com > > Information Technology FreeBSD : gle...@freebsd.org > -- Greg Lewis Email : gle...@eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com Information Technology FreeBSD : gle...@freebsd.org
