One point in moving macosx-port to jdk7u-osx is 32/64 JVM. macosx-port is universal (32/64bits) whereas jdk7u-osx is 64 VM only.
Allready discussed in these lists and I still didn't understand why OSX should have 64bits only VM. 2011/12/9 Andrey Pikalev <[email protected]>: > We are moving towards the goal of making the Mac OS X platform one of the > standard supported platforms for JDK7 updates. Before we push Mac specific > code into the jdk7u forest we want to stabilize the code in the integration > forest jdk7u-osx, which is a logical child of jdk7u-dev. Doing so reduces > the risk of destabilizing jdk7u on any other platform. > > We have merged most of the macosx-port changes into the jdk7u-osx forest. > After we make sure jdk7u-osx is buildable on all platforms, we plan to > freeze the macosx-port forest and move the Mac port development into > jdk7u-osx. > > This will result in two major changes in the development process. The first > is that Mac OS X Port development will be managed by jdk7u rules starting on > the official move date. The second is that we will freeze the Mac OS X Port > JIRA instance on java.net and continue the bug tracking by regular JDK means > (i.e., Bugster). > > We very much want to have macosx-port contributors join the jdk7u/jdk7u-osx > project as contributors, authors, committers, and reviewers. The process > will be managed by Dalibor in the next few days. > > -- > Dalibor Topic, > Paul Hohensee, > Andrey Pikalev
