RFR: JDK-8200132: Remove jre images and bundles

[Alan Bateman]

On 04/06/2018 22:22, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> 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
This looks okay to me, and seems better than the configure option 
mentioned in one of the mails.

I think you will still need to do some communication about this change, 
maybe to jdk-dev so that folks that may be relying on the jre image know 
that they need to build the legacy-jre-image target.

I suspect this area of the build will be re-visited again if the Java 
Packager JEP goes ahead as that will need a similar list of modules and 
maybe options.

-Alan.