RFR: JDK-8263468: New page for "recent" new API

[Erik Joelsson]

On Thu, 27 May 2021 13:28:33 GMT, Erik Joelsson <erikj at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> I don't have a solution for this problem. AFAIK there are a few things that have to be "bumped" manually between releases, and this would be yet another. Obviously not a great solution.
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> Yes, there are a few things, but in the build itself, we are down to a single config file today, so I would really appreciate if this could be figured out. I can provide the implementation for generating this, but I need to understand what the expected pattern is. From what I can see, it looks like $(sequence N, M) where N is the last LTS+1 and M is current JDK version. Then the string has "JDK N" in it. M is already well defined, so the only new input here is N, which we could move to the version numbers config file (make/conf/version-numbers.conf). Something like DEFAULT_VERSION_DOCS_API_SINCE=11. There is some additional boilerplate needed, and the sequence macro of course, but does this sound reasonable to you?

We actually have a sequence macro already, so generating the list can be done like this:

$(call CommaList,$(call sequence 12, 17))

Or if what you have is 11 and 17:

$(call CommaList, $(filter-out 11, $(call sequence 11, 17)))

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/4209