RFR 9 : 8160370 : System.getProperty("os.version") returns "Unknown" on Mac

[Mandy Chung]

> On Jun 30, 2016, at 7:33 AM, Gerard Ziemski <gerard.ziemski at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> On Jun 29, 2016, at 6:47 PM, Mandy Chung <mandy.chung at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> I think we should move away from testing on unsupported platforms.  Is this just temporary?  when will this be removed?
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> I think we should leave the workaround code in forever - it will never execute on newer/supported OS X and will do the right thing on earlier ones.

I disagree to leave dead code in our source forever (imagine the amount of code that we removed in the past were left in the source base).

It may be fine to add this temporarily until our infrastructure completes migrating to supported platforms.  We should track this and remove it in the future.

Mandy