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Would there be a difference in contributing to OpenJDK vs to, say, Temurin or Zulu Java? How separated are those Java JDKs really from OpenJDK?
by _benj 8mo ago
Would there be a difference in contributing to OpenJDK vs to, say, Temurin or Zulu Java? How separated are those Java JDKs really from OpenJDK?
- embedding-shape 8mo agoTemurin and others are "distributions" of OpenJDK, basically their compilation results of it, not their own codebase. They're not "forks" in terms of source code, but they have patches, build systems, QA, and everything else around it that they apply, then offer you their version of it. OpenJDK: where Java is developed Temurin / Zulu: where OpenJDK is built, tested, packaged, and supported
- _benj 8mo agoThanks for the explanation!