An impassioned plea on version numbers

[Ismael Juma]

That's right:

$ java -version
java version "9"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 9+181)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 9+181, mixed mode)

Ismael

On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 9:17 AM, Sven Reimers <sven.reimers at gmail.com>
wrote:

> This format already changed for 9.
>
> Sven
>
> Am 28.09.2017 08:43 schrieb "Peter Lawrey" <peter.lawrey at gmail.com>:
>
> > I am assuming a minimum of changes to the format of the current internal
> > Java version
> >
> > $ java -version
> > java version "1.8.0_144"
> > Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_144-b01)
> > Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.144-b01, mixed mode)
> >
> > With a recent version of Java 8 update 144, being 1.8.0_144 internally.
> > ᐧ
> >
> > On 27 September 2017 at 19:12, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On 27/09/17 16:31, Peter Lawrey wrote:
> > > > It's worth noting the version is likely to be
> > > >
> > > > 1.10.0_1
> > > > 1.11.0_1
> > > >
> > > > or
> > > >
> > > > 1.18.3_1
> > > > 1.18.9_1
> > > > 1.19.3_1
> > >
> > > Why do you say that?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Andrew Haley
> > > Java Platform Lead Engineer
> > > Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com>
> > > EAC8 43EB D3EF DB98 CC77 2FAD A5CD 6035 332F A671
> > >
> >
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