Proposal: JDK-8231640 - (prop) Canonical property storage

[Jaikiran Pai]

On 28/08/21 8:46 pm, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 28/08/2021 05:45, Jaikiran Pai wrote:
>> I hadn't considered the system property approach to switch to old 
>> behaviour in my proposals, so this is a very good input and I 
>> personally think the most logical proposals so far.
>
> Roger may be right that few would care but it would be changing 
> behavior that goes back to JDK 1.0. In your list (and thanks for 
> writing down the options with pros/cons) then your 1a where 
> SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH changes to write the epoch date rather than the 
> current date seems to be most consistent with other tools and the 
> wider eco system. It seems the least disruptive in that it doesn't 
> change existing behavior and would be opt-in when reproducibility is 
> required.

In that case, I will start work along these lines.

-Jaikiran