RFR[9] 8160956: Runtime.Version.compareTo/compareToIgnoreOpt problem

[Pavel Rappo]

Paul, 

One more question. I have read Version's javadoc and my impression is that
Version could be a value-type class. Is that right?

> On 16 Mar 2017, at 18:05, Paul Sandoz <paul.sandoz at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 16 Mar 2017, at 08:27, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
>> 
>> 2017/3/16 8:17:03 -0700, pavel.rappo at oracle.com:
>>> Please review the following trivial change for [1]:
>>> 
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~prappo/8160956/webrev.00/
>> 
>> Looks good to me.
>> 
>>> ...
>>> 
>>> P.S. While we are in this area, may I ask if anybody knows why exactly Version
>>> class has lost its 'final' modifier while moving from 'jdk' package to
>>> 'java.lang' [2]?
>> 
>> I have no idea.  This class really ought to be final.
>> 
> 
> Yes, Pavel unless there is some non-obvious here (which i think is unlikely) i suggest you make it so, update your patch, test, then push!
> 
> Paul.