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

[Seán Coffey]

On 03/04/2014 11:17, David Holmes wrote:
> Don't we also need to modify jprt properties?
Which properties need changing David ? We should list them.

The strange thing here is that JPRT is already using JDK 8 (b132) as 
bootstrap. That's how the CORBA build failures passed by me.

regards,
Sean.

>
> 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:
>>
>>> 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
>>