On 18:25 Wed 03 Aug , Kelly O'Hair wrote: > FYI... > > If you are interested in the jdk8 build infrastructure changes coming down > the pipe, I invite you > to join the build-infra-dev alias: > > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-infra-dev/2011-August/000029.html > > I expect this work to get started and moving soon with Fredrik as the primary > contributor, > the only catch is that I will be on vacation Aug 9-21 and the openjdk mail > system seems to be > refusing to send email to Fredrik. Hopefully I'll resolve Fredrik's email > issue very soon. > > The autoconf setup may borrow ideas/patterns from the IcedTea project, and I > want to give > credit to that team for that work.
Thanks. I'd hope we could actually use some of the IcedTea work in OpenJDK. I don't think doing that will be so much a technical issue; I doubt you're going to test for libraries any differently and could probably start using more system ones. However, there is a legal issue with OpenJDK contributions requiring the OCA. > > Please send questions to the build-infra-dev alias. > > -kto -- Andrew :) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and IcedTea http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://icedtea.classpath.org PGP Key: F5862A37 (https://keys.indymedia.org/) Fingerprint = EA30 D855 D50F 90CD F54D 0698 0713 C3ED F586 2A37