RFR: JDK-8087329: Introduce VERSION_IS_GA

Thu Jun 25 22:41:13 UTC 2015

On 2015-06-25 16:09, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Please review this change to the new build number implementation in 
> project Verona. This change is intended to go into the Verona forest 
> for now until it's time for integration into jdk9.
>
> By definition, the way to determine from the version string if a 
> release is a GA release or a pre-release is to check if the PRE string 
> is empty. If it is empty, it's a GA release, otherwise it's not. While 
> this is logical from a theoretical point of view, it is not 
> immediately obvious to developers. One place in the OpenJDK where such 
> a check is done is make/Javadoc.gmk.
>
> In this patch, a new make variable is introduced: VERSION_IS_GA, which 
> can be either true or false.
>
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8087329
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8087329/webrev.01/
>
> /Erik
Looks good to me.

/Magnus