On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Erik Joelsson <erik.joels...@oracle.com> wrote: > > > On 2016-09-29 16:54, Alan Burlison wrote: >> >> On 29/09/2016 08:03, Volker Simonis wrote: >> >>> Sorry, but that doesn't sound like a solution to me at all. I think we >>> should keep the OpenJDK sources self-contained. I don't want to depend >>> on yet another non-standard, third party library which doesn't even >>> exist now. >> >> >> Unless I'm completely misunderstanding, that's not what is being proposed. >> What is being proposed is refactoring code that's currently duplicated >> across the JVM & JDK into a common library. Such a library would be a >> standard Java component, not non-standard and not third-party. I can't see >> what the problem is, to be honest. >> > Volker's comment above was directed at the suggestion of taking the > problematic AIX specific code out of the OpenJDK repositories and create a > separate library with a separate lifecycle somewhere else that OpenJDK for > AIX would then need to depend on. Volker was instead proposing what you > describe. >
Thanks Erik, this is exactly what I meant :) And I think the solution you ssketched in your previous mail is the right way to address this problem. Regards, Volker > /Erik
