RFR: JDK-8200132: Remove jre images and bundles

[Martijn Verburg]

Thanks Erik,

We do have quite a few requests to build that jRE for AdoptOpenJDK
binaries, and this should let us continue doing that.

Cheers,
Martijn

On 5 June 2018 at 09:41, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:

> 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.
>