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    On 28/03/2025 09:25, Galder Zamarreno wrote:<br>
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        <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">However, <a class="gmail_plusreply" id="plusReplyChip-0" href="mailto:fitzsim@redhat.com" tabindex="-1" moz-do-not-send="true">@Thomas Fitzsimmons</a> had a very
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        <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I also wonder
            why the test harness is passing </span><code class="gmail-c-mrkdwn__code">--date $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH</code><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">, since the
            test jars are not distributed, not sure why they'd need to
            be reproducible...</span></div>
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                  <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I think
                    his question is valid. Why pass --date for a test
                    jar?</div>
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    I'm not sure what "test harness" and "test jar" means here but just
    to say that jrt-fs.jar is in the JDK run-time.  When an IDE running
    on JDK X needs to build/run a project for target JDK Y then it will
    use the jrt file system to access the classes in the target JDK.
    jrt-fs.jar is the provider implementation that JDK X will load to do
    this.<br>
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    -Alan<br>
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