Proposal: JDK-8231640 - (prop) Canonical property storage
Jaikiran Pai
jai.forums2013 at gmail.com
Sat Sep 4 15:27:27 UTC 2021
On 29/08/21 6:41 pm, Jaikiran Pai wrote:
>
> 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.
I've now opened a PR https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/5372 with these
proposed changes.
-Jaikiran
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