Hi Andrew, > We need an active Windows maintainer for OpenJDK 6. Unless someone > steps up to do this, Windows support will rot.
We are ready to maintain Windows builds for OpenJDK 6. Thanks, -Yuri -----Original Message----- From: jdk6-dev [mailto:jdk6-dev-boun...@openjdk.java.net] On Behalf Of Andrew Haley Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 11:52 AM To: Alex Kasko; Andrew Hughes Cc: Omair Majid; jdk6-dev@openjdk.java.net Subject: Re: OpenJDK6 B31 Now Available Hi, On 04/23/2014 08:28 PM, Alex Kasko wrote: > On 04/22/2014 03:55 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote: >>> >>> The OpenJDK6-b31 build should succeed without the recent AWT-related >>> changesets: >>> >>> [...] > > I actually ended up with the similar exclusion list after some > unsuccessful attempts of backporting. > > I was able to backport more AWT changes from jdk7 and build "non-debug" > version on VS2003. But "debug" compilation was still broken (due to > debug ifdefs) and I gave up after some time. We need an active Windows maintainer for OpenJDK 6. Unless someone steps up to do this, Windows support will rot. > I am willing to participate in such compiler update, but two things > prevents me from doing it: > > - zero windows programming experienc > - no ability to run jtreg test-suite on windows So, that is our problem. If there to be OpenJDK 6 support on Windows it is necessary for those who use it to come up with some kind of proposal to keep it working. Andrew.
