RFR: 8260959: remove RECORDS from PreviewFeature.Feature enum

Thu Feb 4 15:50:41 UTC 2021

On Wed, 3 Feb 2021 01:37:28 GMT, Joe Darcy <darcy at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Given the scary comment and reference to JDK 15 and boot cycle builds, is it really safe to remove the constant?
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> So currently, JDK 17 can be built with a boot JDK of 15, 16, or 17 (since JDK-8257459: "Bump minimum boot jdk to JDK 16") hasn't been fixed yet.
> 
> JDK 17 can currently be used as boot JDK only for itself, right? And in the future be used for JDK 18, and 19.

we already did a very similar fix for text blocks, so this patch is just doing the same for RECORDS

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2360