adding additional numbers to the Java version string
Erik Joelsson
erik.joelsson at oracle.com
Thu Jul 19 13:54:02 UTC 2018
Since JEP 223 specifies an arbitrary length (something I had missed
before), I agree the build should support a few extra version numbers.
/Erik
On 2018-07-18 13:22, Tony Printezis wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> According to the Java version string spec (JEPs 223 and 322) the first part
> of the version string is a sequence of numbers separated by periods. The
> sequence can be of arbitrary length. However, in the OpenJDK configure
> scripts, the sequence length is fixed to exactly four numbers.
>
> For our internal builds we’d like to add at least one additional number to
> the version string. Is there any interest in a change to the scripts to
> allow that?
>
> I’ve prototyped this in a generic way (can add up to 3 additional numbers,
> called “extra1”, “extra2”, and “extra3”). These are set by passing
> --with-version-extra(1|2|3)=… to configure. If they are not set, the
> version string is of course exactly the same as it was before. I also
> changed the way the value of --with-version-string=… is parsed to be able
> to also extract the additional three numbers, if present.
>
> Would this be generally helpful?
>
> Tony
>
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