Seems to me that several Oracle employees already explicitely and/or implicitely have apologized... Is there something more you feel they personally owe u personally?? :-)
On 5/20/10, Raffaello Giulietti <raffaello.giulie...@gmail.com> wrote: > Phil, > > On 2010-05-19 18:20, Phil Race wrote: >>> Kelly, to your knowledge, has the transition to VS2010 been adopted even >>> by the formal JDK7 Release Engineering team? >>> >> >> Since you got so far as to find this doc perhaps you could actually read >> it. It says : >> *BEGIN WARNING*: At this time (Spring/Summer 2010) JDK 7 is starting a >> transition to use the newest VS2010 Microsoft compilers. These build >> instructions are updated to show where we are going. We have a QA >> process to go through before official builds actually use VS2010. So for >> now, official builds are still using VS2003. No other compilers are >> known to build the entire JDK, including non-open portions. So for now >> you should be able to build with either VS2003 or VS2010. We do not >> guarantee that VS2008 will work, although there is sufficient makefile >> support to make at least basic JDK builds plausible. Visual Studio 2010 >> Express compilers are likely to be able to build all the "open" sources, >> with only small adjustments, but this has yet to be made to work. Also >> we have not yet seen the 7.1 Windows SDK with the 64 bit compilers. *END >> WARNING.* > > > Of course, I actually read it. However, only two weeks ago the same doc > reported about VS2008 with no special warning and *that* didn't work > that well. So, I'm now much more cautious about the doc, despite its > warnings. That's why I preferred to explicitly ask one more time rather > than risking to burn my fingers again. > > But you did a good service to the community by quoting the warning once > more. >
