All good questions, see below. On Sat, Feb 11, 2023 at 8:08 AM Elliotte Rusty Harold <elh...@ibiblio.org> wrote: > > The Oracle JDK and OpenJDK, probably others, have bundled a repackaged > Xalan for years. What is the current relationship of these versions to > Apache Xalan? In particular: > > Does anyone contribute patches from the JDK(s) back into Apache Xalan?
There have been patches in Jira over the years. Provenance unknown beyond the Jira ID. > > Do bug fixes from Apache JDK get contributed into the OpenJDK? If by "Apache JDK" you mean Apache Harmony, then no, since Harmony is dead. If you mean Xalan, then no. > > Which versions of Apache Xalan are the source of the bundled Xalans in > which versions of the JDK? I have no idea what Oracle does, or Amazon, or Azul, and so on. > > Or have the JDK bundled versions of Xalan completely forked from > Apache Xalan so that there's little cross-pollination between them? My impression is that is the case indeed, at least for Oracle. If it were not for Mukul's work toward 2.7.3 I would have advocated moving Xalan-J to the Attic. HTH, Gary > > -- > Elliotte Rusty Harold > elh...@ibiblio.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@xalan.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@xalan.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@xalan.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@xalan.apache.org
