On Jul 13, 2011, at 8:39 AM, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
> On Jul 10, 2011, at 1:45 PM, Mike Swingler wrote:
>
>> On Jul 8, 2011, at 9:57 AM, Greg Lewis wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 09:39:17AM -0700, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ok, I'll ask.
>>>>
>>>> So what are the plans with regards to integrating all the bsd and macosx
>>>> port changes into jdk8?
>>>> In a more permanent way?
>>>
>>> Ummm, yes please? :-)
>>>
>>> I guess the first thing to do is to start a discussion of whether the
>>> overall strategy of a separate bsd directory hierarchy that mirrors the
>>> linux and solaris directory hierarchies is acceptable in terms of merging
>>> the changes in. If that is approved then we can start posting some
>>> webrevs. Since the macosx-port is a child of bsd-port and picks up the
>>> bsd-port changes, it would make sense to merge that in, with some checks
>>> to make sure it still compiles on {Free,Net,Open}BSD.
>>>
>>> Kelly whats the best list to start that discussion on?
>>
>> +1.
>>
>> I think the most logical plan to integrate Mac OS X into mainline JDK8 is
>> for us to begin integrating the BSD port changes, where most of the
>> divergences from mainline are at the HotSpot level. These changes don't
>> access anything above the Darwin/BSD level on Mac OS X, so I am fine leaving
>> the parallel directories left named "bsd".
>>
>> Once integrated, if there is obvious duplication with the solaris/linux
>> hierarchy, we can proceed with further consolidation.
>
> The changes to hotspot may need to take a slightly different ride into jdk8,
> so I'd suggest doing that work separately
> with the hotspot team.
Who would be our best point of contact for discuss integrating the HotSpot
changes so we can move quickly on this?
> For everything else, if someone could prepare webrevs of the BSD changes for
> each repository involved, and send
> them to the [email protected] alias, we can get reviews started and
> get the changes integrated.
> I have a feeling that as the changes get reviewed we might have some cleanup
> ideas.
> Keep in mind that we cannot and will not just drag over all the changesets in
> the existing BSD/MAC repositories,
> we will need to create fresh, probably large, changesets that identify
> themselves as BSD or MAC porting
> changes. We can create multiple CRs and break it up into separate pieces if
> necessary.
> If you need CRs filed, let me know. So the detailed history and the
> changesets in the BSD/MAC repositories will
> stay with those repositories, just so people understand.
Not a problem for me. Initially if we start with just the bsd-port changesets,
that should be a good digestible chunk of changes which should result in a
fully Mac buildable source (just without the Mac-specific features that are
being worked on in the macosx-port.
Greg, would you like to prepare the changesets? One of my guys could do it too
if your busy.
> Formally getting BSD builds to happen on a regular basis may be an issue, but
> first step (in my opinion) is to
> get the source code and makefile logic merged in, making sure the existing
> platform builds are not impacted.
> If someone has references to BSD iso images I can at least get started on
> creating my own VirtualBox setup.
You can also use Mac OS X as a builder for the bsd-port changes if you already
have a configuration available to you. It would be nice to get a FreeBSD turn
of these changes as well, but it might not be necessary if the setup will take
a while.
> ---
>
> I have a major concern here with the build changes involved colliding with
> our build infrastructure changes
> and the jigsaw/modularity changes coming into jdk8.
> Right now, jdk8 is basically jdk7 plus a little change, so doing this now may
> be best, but it needs to happen
> quickly, if we wait too long, the merge could be very painful.
I agree, and am available to drive this ASAP.
Mike Swingler
Java Engineering
Apple Inc.
