Build numbers and milestones
Erik Joelsson
erik.joelsson at oracle.com
Fri Sep 21 00:34:52 PDT 2012
I'm not very familiar with the process for version numbers, but I agree.
Those particular numbers shouldn't be hardcoded into the repo. I believe
they were set just as placeholders until we figured out how to deal with it.
/Erik
On 2012-09-21 08:04, David Holmes wrote:
> I was baffled as to why my environment variables for setting the build
> number and milestone (which are traditionally set this way) were not
> getting picked up by the build.
>
> Finally realized that the include of version.numbers was wiping them out:
>
> JDK_BUILD_NUMBER=
> MILESTONE=internal
>
> I've deleted the above lines locally. I think they should either be
> deleted formally or else only set if not already set. You don't expect
> either of these values to be written into version file in the repo
> (unless you are expecting them to be updated for every build as the
> hotspot version info is?).
>
> David
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