Alan Bateman wrote: > Pavel Tisnovsky wrote: >> : >>> I agree that this test should be fixed but I don't know about jdk7 as >>> it's being stabilized now and only critical changes are allowed. >>> >>> >> >> just to be sure - are you talking about proprietary JDK7 or OpenJDK7? >> > I'm talking about the jdk7/jdk7 forest. That's going to get locked down > soon and only critical changes will be allowed in. I honestly do not > know any of the details as to how this will happen but I don't think > it's unreasonable to limit the number of changes when nearing the end.
I see, thanks for the clarification. > It would be nice if test-only changes could be exempt from red tape but > I just don't know at this point. This shouldn't stop us reviewing the > change of course and I'm happy to run it on Windows for you. I also need > to create a bug for this as I don't think we have one already (FWIW, > this test seems to have been added in 1998 and has been largely > untouched since then). > > -Alan. >