RFR: 8327389: Remove use of HOTSPOT_BUILD_USER

[Julian Waters]

On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 19:53:35 GMT, Andrew John Hughes <andrew at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Also, it might be worth repeating one of my long-standing wishes: that the version string should not be hard-coded into the build, but e.g. stored as a string in the `release` file, and read from there. If we did that, the cost of changing the version string would be negligible, and we wouldn't need to worry as much about it. It would also be simple to compare different builds which end up with the same bits since they are built from the same sources, but by different version flags (e.g. -ea vs GA). (In fact, we'd turn a -ea build into a GA just by updating the version string, so we'd know for sure we are publishing what we tested.)

Why not store the version string inside HotSpot, and have it as the one source of truth for the version string so it doesn't need to be hardcoded in other places? A text file seems too easy to modify to set the version string to a rubbish value

-------------

PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/18136#issuecomment-1985087876