On 12/10/2014 04:32 PM, Nikolay Gorshkov wrote: > I see your point that we chose a risky way and remember discussions > around > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk6-dev/2010-December/002195.html > that we had in the past when the fix for OPENJDK6-35 was in review. > > Well, my opinion is that this risk was taken when we decided to integrate > OPENJDK6-35. Unfortunately, we have consequences, and now we need to deal > with them. Luckily, the problem is known and resolved by a simple fix. > We have verified it by all available means and currently are not aware of > any other regressions. In my opinion, this approach (moving forward, fixing > regressions) is more preferable than moving to pre- JDK-6650759 state where > we had known incompatibilities.
I admit that you're probably right, but I still need an answer to my question about how important this patch is. Andrew.