Andrew John Hughes wrote:
2010/1/8 Christopher Hegarty - Sun Microsystems Ireland
<christopher.hega...@sun.com>:
On 08/01/2010 16:32, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
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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).
Yes, this is correct.
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)?
I think building the SCTP source with OpenJDK6 should not be a problem.
-Chris.
