----- Original Message ----- > On 06/23/2014 02:30 PM, Ivan Krylov wrote: > > Andrew, thank you. > > Just pushed the changes. > > BTW, icedtea patches 6650759-missing_inference.patch and > > 6638712-wildcard_types.patch are now redundant. > > > > Also, the following bugs may be closed OPENJDK6-32,33,34,35. I would > > close those myself but I do not have the required permissions. > > Deepak Bhole has been doing some digging, and he found this: > > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk6-dev/2010-December/002195.html > > "For the javac changes, backporting 6638712 in and of itself would be > fine; however, backporting 6650759 would be problematic since it > implements a type-inference specification change in JDK 7. There are > differences between the type inference behavior of javac in OpenJDK 6 > and the propriety JDK this issue is one of them. The inference > algorithm in OpenJDK 6 could be reworked a bit, but I don't expect the > javac team to have cycles for that task in the near future." > > For that reason, I should not have approved this patch; it has > already been rejected. I intend to back it out. > > Andrew. > >
Is this still the intention? Our live IcedTea builds, which build against the upstream OpenJDK 6 Mercurial tree, are currently failing and I don't want to waste time fixing that if the patch is going to be reverted again. There's a security update coming up, and thus a b32 release, so we need to make a decision ASAP. Thanks, -- Andrew :) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) PGP Key: 248BDC07 (https://keys.indymedia.org/) Fingerprint = EC5A 1F5E C0AD 1D15 8F1F 8F91 3B96 A578 248B DC07
