Windows 2003 X64 and Windows 7 X64

[Kelly O'Hair]

It has been my experience that every 'windows problem chase' is different depending on the Windows release.
Each release has different red herrings and land mines that lead you down dead ends and lost time.

We need to change the default or official Windows build system for jdk8 anyway, and if making that change now
minimizes the Windows releases we have to track down issues on, that seems like a good idea to me.
And also accelerates this whole issue of changing the jdk8 build systems.

So, I'm less concerned about all the possible systems it should work on than getting it to work really well on the
systems that are really critical.

-kto

On Oct 24, 2012, at 7:44 AM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:

> On 2012-10-23 19:18, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
>> It makes me think that maybe all this effort on Windows 2003 X64 build issues may be wasted, and maybe we
>> should consider just changing at least our 64bit builds to Windows 7 X64.
> Just to be clear: the hangs we've been trying to eliminate happens on Windows 7 as well. (In fact, I've been chasing it *only* on Windows 7). So it does not appear to be related to Windows version.
> 
> Apart from that, I don't have any opinion. I think the builds should work just as well on Windows 2003 as Windows 7. Maybe Windows 7 has other improvements? (Come on, Microsoft must have been doing *something* in all those years! :-))
> 
> /Magnus