RFR: JDK-8200132: Remove jre images and bundles

[Erik Joelsson]

Given the feedback, I have revised the patch to restore the ability to 
produce a legacy jre image, but it is still removed from the default 
"product-images" and "images" targets. To build it you need to specify 
it explicitly as "legacy-jre-image" (or mac-legacy-jre-bundle for the 
macosx specific image layout). I still removed the bundle targets for 
the jre image as I very much doubt anyone except Oracle was using them 
anyway. In addition to this, I also updated the help text a bit to 
reflect these changes.

Will this be good enough for those that still need a JRE image?

Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8200132/webrev.02/index.html

/Erik


On 2018-06-01 15:02, 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
>