RFR: 8340133: Add concise usage message to the java executable [v7]

Alan Bateman alanb at openjdk.org
Tue Nov 12 15:33:22 UTC 2024


On Tue, 12 Nov 2024 13:18:34 GMT, Jan Lahoda <jlahoda at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> The idea behind printing the short version is to identify what tool is speaking. It can be removed, if desired.
>
> `shortVersionString` changed to `conciseVersionString` in:
> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/21411/commits/e9e9ad4bdd0a11244cb1ef84fdeea036e94718c7

> The idea behind printing the short version is to identify what tool is speaking. It can be removed, if desired.

It may be helpful to some but I'm consider it may be confusing in other cases, esp. because it may include "LTS" in the output. So I think maybe drop this for now, or get wider input on print the version string as the first line, it can always be added later if needed.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21411#discussion_r1838309819


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