2009/5/18 Joseph D. Darcy <joe.da...@sun.com>: > Andrew John Hughes wrote: >>> >>> snip... >>> Given how well this model works for IcedTea working with OpenJDK, I'm >>> confident it can also work for the JDK's incorporation of corba, jaxp, >>> and >>> jaxws :-) >>> >>> >> >> Indeed, IcedTea already downloads a tarball of the HSX repository and >> deletes the OpenJDK6 version. Having to sync between HSX and OpenJDK6 >> just seems to create unnecessary work. >> >> The big question is what would be in the build drops -- would these be >> a complete amalgamation of all the tarballs from their various sources >> or just upstream OpenJDK6 (i.e. jdk and langtools by the sound of it)? >> > > That is a detail that remains to be worked out. Would you prefer one big > tarball? > > -Joe >
I think it would be easier and we then also know we are using exactly the same sources as Sun, and can compare e.g. test results. -- 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
