RFR: JDK-8189094: Change required boot jdk to JDK 9
Martin Buchholz
martinrb at google.com
Tue Oct 17 16:53:42 UTC 2017
I tried to figure out how this patch actually works. At first I thought we
were "shading" (renaming all the packages in the source files) but now I
think we're merely renaming the modules by appending ".interim" to the
names. But that looks like cheating to me - we're not allowed to have
multiple modules containing the same packages, but are getting away with it
because the runtime happens to never look at the (unused) original jdk9
modules?
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