2010/1/8 Christopher Hegarty - Sun Microsystems Ireland <christopher.hega...@sun.com>: > > On 08/01/2010 16:32, Andrew John Hughes wrote: >> >> .... >> >> For OpenJDK6, I think it would be better to port over SCTP after the >> b18 release which is currently undergoing final testing. So please >> don't push anything to the OpenJDK6 repositories just yet :-) > > Oh, maybe the bug description is a little misleading. What this bug plans to > do is simply reorganize the SCTP implementation in JDK7 so that it can be > ripped out and bolted onto a standard Sun JDK6 (if that's the kind of thing > you like to do!). There are no changes planned for OpenJDK6, just JDK7. > > -Chris. >
Yeah, I got that this was a patch for OpenJDK7, but I thought the long term goal was to backport SCTP to OpenJDK6, not just provide the hack approach of http://openjdk.java.net/projects/sctp/html/sctp6.html with 'standard Sun JDK6' (whatever that is - I guess you mean the proprietary Sun JDK6 builds). I think it would be nice to provide this backport as an option with IcedTea6. Then users could use this with 6 out of the box. Do you know what impact this would have when built with OpenJDK6 (rather than hacked into an existing proprietary build built against ancient system libraries)? -- Andrew :-) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and the OpenJDK http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://openjdk.java.net PGP Key: 94EFD9D8 (http://subkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: F8EF F1EA 401E 2E60 15FA 7927 142C 2591 94EF D9D8
