Re: Visual Studio 2010

2010-05-20 Thread Lussier, Denis
Seems to me that several Oracle employees already explicitely and/or implicitely have apologized... Is there something more you feel they personally owe u personally?? :-) On 5/20/10, Raffaello Giulietti wrote: > Phil, > > On 2010-05-19 18:20, Phil Race wrote: >>> Kelly, to your knowledge, ha

Re: Visual Studio 2010

2010-05-20 Thread Raffaello Giulietti
Phil, On 2010-05-19 18:20, Phil Race wrote: >> Kelly, to your knowledge, has the transition to VS2010 been adopted even >> by the formal JDK7 Release Engineering team? >> > > Since you got so far as to find this doc perhaps you could actually read > it. It says : > *BEGIN WARNING*: At this tim

Re: Visual Studio 2010

2010-05-19 Thread Erik Trimble
One more thing about that: Due to resource constraints on developer time (we haven't figured out how to clone Kelly ;-) we (Oracle) are really only ever going to support building the JDK with a single OS/C compiler combination, which we slowly change over time. The OpenJDK project itself is h

Re: Visual Studio 2010

2010-05-19 Thread Kelly O'Hair
What Phil says... ;^) Zeroing in on VS2010 will remove many complex situations in the builds. -kto On May 19, 2010, at 9:42 AM, Phil Race wrote: On 5/19/2010 8:38 AM, Pete Brunet wrote: >no time will be spent on VS2005 or VS2008 Thanks Kelly, I'd like to understand why they won't be sup

Re: Visual Studio 2010

2010-05-19 Thread Phil Race
On 5/19/2010 8:38 AM, Pete Brunet wrote: >no time will be spent on VS2005 or VS2008 Thanks Kelly, I'd like to understand why they won't be supported. 1. We won't be using them at all internally so we will have no idea if they work. Folks will complain if we say they are supported but don'

Re: Visual Studio 2010

2010-05-19 Thread Phil Race
On 5/19/2010 12:56 AM, Raffaello Giulietti wrote: Since some days, the "OpenJDK Build README" mentions Visual Studio C++ 2010 as the reference compiler. As mentioned by Kelly (http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2010-May/002944.html), the step seems to be a stable one, at least for

Re: Visual Studio 2010

2010-05-19 Thread Pete Brunet
>no time will be spent on VS2005 or VS2008 Thanks Kelly, I'd like to understand why they won't be supported. -- *Pete Brunet* a11ysoft - Accessibility Architecture and Development (512) 238-6967 (work), (512) 689-4155 (cell) Skype:

Re: Visual Studio 2010

2010-05-19 Thread Kelly O'Hair
On May 19, 2010, at 12:56 AM, Raffaello Giulietti wrote: Since some days, the "OpenJDK Build README" mentions Visual Studio C++ 2010 as the reference compiler. That is the current plan, to convert to VS2010. Phil Race has pushed some recent changes to allow for VS2010 builds in the jdk7/bui

Re: Visual Studio 2010

2010-05-19 Thread Kelly O'Hair
David -Original Message- From: build-dev-boun...@openjdk.java.net [mailto:build-dev-boun...@openjdk.java.net ] On Behalf Of Erik Trimble Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 3:36 AM To: Raffaello Giulietti Cc: build-dev@openjdk.java.net Subject: Re: Visual Studio 2010 Raffaello Giulietti wrote:

Re: Visual Studio 2010

2010-05-19 Thread Dalibor Topic
David Dabbs wrote: > FWIW, Windows 7 "Enterprise" is supposed to ship with Microsoft's Unix > compatibility bits, so conceivably no MKS or Cygwin would be required. I haven't seen anyone post on this list about (successfully or not) trying to use Interix at all for a build so far, so I wouldn't p

Re: Visual Studio 2010

2010-05-19 Thread Raffaello Giulietti
Thanks Pete, but I already reported my Windows build history with VS2008 here (http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2010-May/002955.html). I was just curious about the commitment to VS2010. From the response by Erik, I decided to wait some time before I'll ever try my next Windows buil

Re: Visual Studio 2010

2010-05-19 Thread Pete Brunet
Raffaello, If you'd like to get started before the build is updated I can give you some hints based on my experience with VS 2008. Back in November I was successful in building b75 with the Standard Edition of VS 2008. I assume the Express version would also work, possibly with some similar adjus

RE: Visual Studio 2010

2010-05-19 Thread David Dabbs
ik Trimble Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 3:36 AM To: Raffaello Giulietti Cc: build-dev@openjdk.java.net Subject: Re: Visual Studio 2010 Raffaello Giulietti wrote: > Since some days, the "OpenJDK Build README" mentions Visual Studio C++ > 2010 as the reference compiler. &g

Re: Visual Studio 2010

2010-05-19 Thread Erik Trimble
Raffaello Giulietti wrote: Since some days, the "OpenJDK Build README" mentions Visual Studio C++ 2010 as the reference compiler. As mentioned by Kelly (http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2010-May/002944.html), the step seems to be a stable one, at least for some years, I guess. K