RFR: JDK-8200132: Remove jre images and bundles
Magnus Ihse Bursie
magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com
Sat Jun 2 06:36:54 UTC 2018
The actual changes look good to me.
As a follow up, I think we should check if we could remove some of the JDK prefixes that was in place just to differentiate from the JRE. The term JDK is so overloaded, so it would be good to get rid of it where possible (as in "JDK image", which should be only "image" now).
I also hear Martin's fear about this being a too large change. I don't think that is a problem per se, but you should probably get some input from our downstream distributors so that they are able to provide the packages they feel are needed.
/Magnus
> 2 juni 2018 kl. 01:02 skrev Erik Joelsson <erik.joelsson at oracle.com>:
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> 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.
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> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8200132
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> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8200132/webrev.01/
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> /Erik
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