RFR: 8259679: GitHub actions should use MSVC 14.28

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On 2021-01-19 00:13, David Holmes wrote:
> Hard-wiring build numbers seems a maintenance PITA. :( Is there not a 
> way to do this that is independent of the actual build installed?
I agree that hard-wiring numbers in the code is bad. However, having 
explicit version numbers for our dependencies is good. That is the 
philosophy behind jib, and it has served us well. We should look at 
finding a way to store the actual versioon numbers outside the 
submit.yml file, though.

But what do you mean by "independent of the actual build installed"?

> Would it not also be good to add a check for the existence of the 
> build that we do hard-wire? That way the problem will be very clear 
> next time.
It would be fantastic! Please tell me how to to that in the limited, 
brain-dead Github Actions environment. :-(

/Magnus
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
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>> Commit messages:
>>   - 8259679: GitHub actions should use MSVC 14.28
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>> Changes: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2126/files
>>   Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.java.net/?repo=jdk&pr=2126&range=00
>>    Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8259679
>>    Stats: 2 lines in 1 file changed: 0 ins; 0 del; 2 mod
>>    Patch: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2126.diff
>>    Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk 
>> pull/2126/head:pull/2126
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>> PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2126
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