Need reviewers and comments: 6989472: Provide simple jdk identification information in the install image

[Ulf Zibis]

Am 01.12.2010 22:26, schrieb Kelly O'Hair:
>
> I don't want to run 'java' because I might not be able to, and I don't want to use some platform 
> specific api
> to dig into binaries that may be located at any number of locations.
> I'm looking for a very simple text file way to identify what I kind of jdk image I have.
>
> There are numerous ways to determine this as you point out, but none that remove the native binary 
> execution,
> or grokking around inside binary files.

I'm wondering, why even jdk build group people still prefer this instead using the "release" file.
See thread: 'JDK8 32-bit "docs" build fails on 64-bit Windows'

-Ulf