RFR: 8140344: add support for 3 digit update release numbers

[David Holmes]

On 18/11/2015 1:30 AM, Rob McKenna wrote:
> I'd expect this to be superseded by 223 completely but I've cc'd
> verona-dev in case there are objections. At this point the fix is more
> for the benefit of 7 & 8. I'd be happy to mark this 9-na if that makes
> more sense?

I'd vote for a 7 (and 8?) specific fix. Didn't this already get fixed in 6.

David

>      -Rob
>
> On 17/11/15 15:19, Alan Bateman wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 17/11/2015 14:47, Rob McKenna wrote:
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> With 7u hitting 101 shortly we've noticed that our Version parsing
>>> infrastructure balks at the extra digit. With that in mind I'd like to
>>> update the logic surrounding the parsing of version numbers and the
>>> test itself to use regex instead of the less flexible
>>> CharacterSequence method.
>>>
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~robm/8140344/webrev.01/
>> Would it be better to bring this to verona-dev so that this can be
>> looked at in the context of the JEP 223 changes?
>>
>> -Alan