RFR: JDK-8200132: Remove jre images and bundles

[Martin Buchholz]

JREs are a very long tradition.  I suggest deferring disruptive changes
like this to some release past jdk11.

On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 3:02 PM, Erik Joelsson <erik.joelsson at oracle.com>
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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