jdk8-b73 & nashorn

[Dave Pointon]

Thanx for the fast response, Dave - reply duly noted and indeed promulgated
:-)

Thanx again ,

--
Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS

Now I saw, tho' too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the
cost and before we we judge rightly of our strength to go thro' with it -
Robinson Crusoe


On 7 May 2014 18:57, David Katleman <david.katleman at oracle.com> wrote:

>
> On 5/7/2014 10:18 AM, Dave Pointon wrote:
>
>> Greetings fellow builders ,
>>
>> I have a question, as the subject suggests, regarding the version of the
>> nashorn repo - specifically, one of my current tasks is to attempt to
>> build
>> OJDK level jdk8-b73 but I can't find that level/tag in the nashorn repo.
>>
>> Is there a usual or even standard, method used in OJDK to establish the
>> appropriate level of sub-repos ?
>>
>
> nashorn wasn't added to JDK 8 until about b82, so earlier tags wouldn't be
> there.
>
> Looks like the creator of nashorn did add some older tags to the repo to
> help out in situations like this, but b73 was omitted
>
> In this case, you could use jdk8-b69, and you would get the same as what
> you would get for b73, which is nothing, since nashorn was still empty.
>
> Thanks
>         Dave
>