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

[Erik Joelsson]

As Chris pointed out, we have a patch that's already been reviewed, so 
making the change is trivial. I do think a bit of a heads up to jdk9-dev 
is a good idea though.

/Erik

On 2014-04-03 12:04, Alan Bateman 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