On 9 February 2011 14:24, Mark Wielaard <mark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? ÂBecause 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. > No, but I don't really have time to look into it either. Let's just keep with what we know for now. >> > > This patch implements the work-in-progress invokedynamic API stubs described >> > > here: >> > > >> > > Â 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/ I think we need public ones from both IcedTea 6 & 7 so we know what they are based on. > Cheers, > > Mark > > > -- 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 15FAÂ 7927 142C 2591 94EF D9D8
