Where have all the "fastdebug" builds gone?

[Volker Simonis]

Just to be clear:
- I know that this an OpenJDK mailing list
- I know that http://jdk[6,7,8].java.net/download.html contains Oracle
JDK binaries
- I know I can build OpenJDK fastdebug build myself (even on Windows:)

But I just thought that some of the Oracle folks on this list may know
why 6u25 is the only release
for which the download page currently offers debug builds:

http://download.java.net/jdk6/6u25/promoted/b03/index.html

while this is not the case for any other release (nor before 6u25 and
neither after 6u25)

Thank you and best regards,
Volker

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Ulf Zibis <Ulf.Zibis at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi Volker,
>
> maybe you find some answers here:
> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.openjdk.website/cutoff=297
> http://markmail.org/search/?q=list%3Anet.java.openjdk#query:%20list%3Anet.java.openjdk.web-discuss+page:1+mid:hpggicgvoyuuezvi+state:results
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/web-discuss/2011-October/thread.html
>
> -Ulf
>
>
>
> Am 08.11.2011 11:30, schrieb Volker Simonis:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I could have sworn that
>>
>> http://jdk6.java.net/download.html and
>> http://jdk7.java.net/download.html
>>
>> always contained product AND "fastdebug" builds, but as I just
>> verified today there are no more "fastdebug" builds available neither
>> for JDK6 nor for JDK7 and JDK8.
>>
>> Is this intentional?
>> Is there any other source for debug builds of the original Oracle JDK?
>>
>> The debug builds have always been very useful to track down problems,
>> especially because many of the diagnostic VM options are only
>> available in debug builds.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Volker
>>
>