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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