RFR: JDK-8200132: Remove jre images and bundles
mandy chung
mandy.chung at oracle.com
Fri Jun 1 22:33:23 UTC 2018
Looks good. The build is much simplified.
Modules.gmk
include_in_jdk can be removed since it should always be true.
In fact build.properties support can be removed some day.
Mandy
On 6/1/18 3:02 PM, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> Since JDK 9 and modules, the idea of a prebuilt JRE is no longer
> providing much value. The idea is rather that you link together an image
> with the modules and settings you actually need, either with or without
> your application. For this reason oracle will no longer ship JRE images
> that differ content wise to the JDK image in JDK 11 and we would like to
> remove them from the OpenJDK build to reduce complexity.
>
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8200132
>
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8200132/webrev.01/
>
> /Erik
>
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