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

[David Holmes]

Don't we also need to modify jprt properties?

David

On 3/04/2014 8:12 PM, Chris Hegarty wrote:
> 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:
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>> 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
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