RFR: JDK-8242863: Bump minimum boot jdk to JDK 14

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On 2020-04-17 11:41, Jan Lahoda wrote:
> Should the boot JDK's source and target level be updated to 14 as 
> well, so that the interim javac can use JDK 14 features? Or is that 
> automatic?
>
> I can still see -source 13 here:
> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/07156dd25b0ac468681b33181516bab34bb0c93d/make/autoconf/boot-jdk.m4#L348 
>

That should really be getting the value from a variable, and not have it 
hard-coded, yes. It's been an ongoing project trying to get the number 
of changes when upgrading version number down to a minimum. This one has 
clearly been missed.

/Magnus


>
> Thanks,
>     Jan
>
> On 17. 04. 20 10:12, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
>> On 2020-04-16 18:54, Erik Joelsson wrote:
>>> JDK 14 is now GA. The minimum boot JDK version for mainline/JDK 15 
>>> should be bumped to this version.
>>>
>>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8242863
>>>
>>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8242863/webrev.01/index.html
>> Looks good to me.
>>
>> /Magnus
>>>
>>> /Erik
>>>
>>