On Fri, 18 Sep 2020 02:48:15 GMT, Stuart Marks <sma...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Our local Santuario maintainer says: >> >> In general, changes to Apache Santuario should also be made at Apache so we >> stay in sync. > > Hi @doom369, I hope we didn't end up wasting too much of your time with this. > I wanted to respond to a comment you made > earlier in this PR, >> I have in mind dozens of improvements all over the code like this one. > > It's hard to see, but as you discovered, the JDK has different groups of > people maintaining different areas, and > sometimes there are hidden constraints on those different areas, for example, > to avoid divergence with upstream source > bases. And as you discovered, sometimes those source bases might need to > maintain compatibility with an older JDK ... > so we don't want to update this code even though it's IN the JDK. Those kind > of constraints generally don't apply to > code in the java.base module, since there's nothing upstream of it, and by > definition it cannot depend on anything > outside the JDK. Generally -- though there are exceptions -- we're more > receptive to keeping stuff in java.base (and > sometimes related modules close to the core) on the latest and greatest > stuff. There are some constraints, however. > There are some things we can't use too early during initialization of the > JDK, such as lambdas. Also, there is some > code lurking around that is sometimes executed by the boot JDK, which is > typically one release behind. (This is > definitely the case for tools like javac, but I think it might also apply to > some things in base.) Anyway, if you'd > like to pursue some of these improvements, drop a note to > core-libs-dev@openjdk and we can talk about it. Thanks. @stuart-marks thanks. Sure, I understand that maintaining OpenJDK is not a simple task. I thought as change is super simple without any side effects it can go through. But I was wrong. That's fine. I'll focus on `java.base` when I have some free time. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/29
