RFR: JDK-8210962 Deprecate jdk-variant

[Erik Joelsson]

On 2018-09-20 11:35, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
>
> I guess the question is how much variability is there in day-to-day builds. As the guy who builds
> lots of different configurations, I see great simplicity in maintaining current static label that
> captures most of the usual variability. For example, my current scripts have:
>
>     build_dir_base = 'build/' + os + '-' + target_oj + '-normal-' + variant + '-' + mode + '/'
>
> The only oddity here is "normal", which I would be happy to see going, even if this requires me to
> special case jdk-12+ build configs.
>
Just a side note, you know about --with-conf-name? If I was automating 
various builds I would probably want to be in control of the outputdir 
instead of trying to predict it.

/Erik