On 11/17/10 9:33 AM, Mike Swingler wrote: > > On Nov 17, 2010, at 12:01 AM, Henri Gomez wrote: > > >> >> 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. :-) >> >> >> >> 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). >> >> >> >> >> >> A very good news :) >> >> >> >> Any date to see this changes available on hg ? > > > > I'm sorry, I don't have those details quite yet. This is a big change in > > process for both companies. Perhaps we will have more ironed out after the > > Thanksgiving break? I'm as eager as anyone to start breaking the _real_ > > build. :-)
I've gone ahead and proposed a Mac OS X porting project with my Porters Group Member hat, with a CFV in the Porters Group, in order to allow work on the Mac OS port to proceed as quickly as possible. See [1] and [2] for details. cheers, dalibor topic [1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/announce/2010-November/000091.html [2] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/porters-dev/2010-November/000323.html -- Oracle <http://www.oracle.com> Dalibor Topic | Java F/OSS Ambassador Phone: +494023646738 <tel:+494023646738> | | | Mobile: +491772664192 <tel:+491772664192> Oracle Java Platform Group ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG | Nagelsweg 55 | 20097 Hamburg ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Rijnzathe 6, 3454PV De Meern, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz, Marcel van de Molen, Alexander van der Ven Green Oracle <http://www.oracle.com/commitment> Oracle is committed to developing practices and products that help protect the environment
