2009/4/1 Kelly O'Hair <kelly.oh...@sun.com>: > Andrew Haley wrote: >> >> We at Red Hat have noticed that the list of IcedTea local patches has >> been getting large, with some local patches that should have been >> pushed upstream. Also, some IcedTea patches have been committed to >> OpenJDK 7 but not OpenJDK 6. >> >> So, we're going to have a serious attempt to minimize the number of >> IcedTea patches. We'll create a Wiki page at icedtea.classpath.org >> that is a list of the patches, and for every one we're going to >> discuss whether it should stay IcedTea local, be pushed upstream to >> OpenJDK, or be deleted altogether. Then we will create OpenJDK >> bugzilla entries for the patches that we think should be integrated >> upstream and work with Sun engineers to get that done. >> >> I hope that it will be possible to reduce the number of patches to a >> fraction of what we have at the moment, while improving the quality of >> the upstream product. >> >> This is going to be quite a lot of work, so we'd appreciate help from >> anyone. >> >> I hope this will meet with everyone's approval. >> >> Andrew. > > Sounds great. > > I can certainly help out with any build related (makefiles etc.) > changes. > > -kto > >
Good, because to my knowledge, those form the majority :) However, my guess would also be that some require extensive reworking to be generally acceptable (e.g. providing the option to build using system libraries rather than forcing it). -- Andrew :-) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and the OpenJDK http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://openjdk.java.net PGP Key: 94EFD9D8 (http://subkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: F8EF F1EA 401E 2E60 15FA 7927 142C 2591 94EF D9D8
