On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 21:52 +0000, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote: > I assume by Mercurial 'branching', you mean what we do with IcedTea6 HEAD > and the releases at present, not the in-tree support? Because that's worse > than CVS IME. I don't know yet. The in-tree support was bad pre-1.0. But that was years ago. Are you sure it is still not workable? I'll try and figure out what savannah supports soon. > > > This patch implements the work-in-progress invokedynamic API stubs described > > > here: > > > > > > http://download.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/dyn/package-summary.html > > > > > > The classes don't do anything useful yet and don't even contain all the > > > specified methods. > > > > Might be better to find some other reference to point people at. This > > screams it isn't finished yet, might move. I don't have a good > > suggestion though. The java doc in OpenJDK is distributed under the GPL > > though, but doesn't seem to be online yet. > > Is there anything stopping us having the docs generated by IcedTea online? > Maybe the builder could produce them? The builder does already produce them, it just doesn't publish them anywhere yet :) I'll look into pushing them public somewhere. Probably to the main icedtea server. And as Robert just pointed out John Rose has been keeping a GPL derived version of the spec/javadoc here: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/pres/indy-javadoc-mlvm/ Cheers, Mark
