On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Tim Ellison <t.p.elli...@gmail.com> wrote: > As you probably know, our concurrency code is a copy of the code in Doug > Lea's JSR166 repository. You may also recall that the JSR166 version of > CopyOnWriteArrayList [1] contains an unpalatable Sun copyright notice, > so we created a Harmony version of this class as a replacement [2]. > > Unfortunately, when we refreshed the implementation from Doug's > repository back in July 2009 [3,4] the Harmony version was overwritten > with the JSR166 version containing the original copyright statement. > > The remedy is to restore the Harmony version [5]. Of course we need to > also check that it implements the right behavior of the refreshed code etc. > > Since we are currently distributing the original JSR166 version in our > latest 5.0 M12 download, I propose that we now also produce a 5.0M12a > containing the replacement file. > > Although this file has been in our builds since last July, we should not > wait until the next scheduled Harmony milestone. So, the 5.0M12a build > will be a minimal change, derived by creating a tag based on 5.0M12 > (r885602) and fixing this one file. That means we can have a shorter > release cycle with reduced testing etc. and replace M12 with M12a.
+1 for M12a release with this one fix > > Comments and questions welcome. > > [1] > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/harmony/enhanced/classlib/trunk/modules/concurrent/src/main/java/java/util/concurrent/CopyOnWriteArrayList.java?view=log > [2] http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-1805 > [3] http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-6262 > [4] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=794678 > [5] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=901123&view=rev > > Regards, > Tim >
