RFR: 8221610: Resurrect (legacy) JRE bundle target

Langer, Christoph christoph.langer at sap.com
Fri Mar 29 11:18:22 UTC 2019


Hi Alan

> I'm curious who these "stakeholders" are and what they use these JRE
> bundle for? As you know, moving to a modular platform has blurred the
> historical distinction between what we knew as the JRE and JDK in the
> past. Are they concerned about disk space?

I think the requirement comes mostly from people that work with CloudFoundry buildpacks. Eventually I think they should be educated on how they can leverage jlink based images but currently they still pull JRE images. Most probably their main concern is image size.

Best regards
Christoph



More information about the build-dev mailing list