When will JDK 9 builds move to requiring the boot JDK be JDK 8?

[Chris Hegarty]

FYI.

This is already reviewed ;-)
  http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2013-December/011406.html  

-Chris.

On 3 Apr 2014, at 11:04, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:

> On 03/04/2014 09:53, Erik Joelsson wrote:
>> I don't see any reason not to make the switch. I filed this bug back in December:
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8030794
> Thanks, I can't think of any reason either.
> 
> So how do we make this happen? Would a mail to jdk9-dev be sufficient to alert folks about this change? Maybe the error from configure when there isn't a JDK 8 available is sufficient?
> 
> -Alan