On Nov 30, 2010, at 4:02 PM, Dalibor Topic wrote: > 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
Wonderful! Thank you very much Dalibor! Mike Swingler Java Engineering Apple Inc.
