On 2016-09-29 16:54, Alan Burlison wrote:
On 29/09/2016 08:03, Volker Simonis wrote:
Sorry, but that doesn't sound like a solution to me at all. I think we
should keep the OpenJDK sources self-contained. I don't want to depend
on yet another non-standard, third party library which doesn't even
exist now.
Unless I'm completely misunderstanding, that's not what is being
proposed. What is being proposed is refactoring code that's currently
duplicated across the JVM & JDK into a common library. Such a library
would be a standard Java component, not non-standard and not
third-party. I can't see what the problem is, to be honest.
Volker's comment above was directed at the suggestion of taking the
problematic AIX specific code out of the OpenJDK repositories and create
a separate library with a separate lifecycle somewhere else that OpenJDK
for AIX would then need to depend on. Volker was instead proposing what
you describe.
/Erik
