Updating the java.version property reported by IcedTea
Deepak Bhole
dbhole at redhat.com
Wed Dec 2 11:21:54 PST 2009
* Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp.org> [2009-12-02 08:40]:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 09:27 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > Mark Wielaard wrote:
> > > If we have to have a "real" update number it would be nice to base it on
> > > the actual icedtea version number.
> >
> > I think the best chance of this working properly is if we print something
> > that is as close as possible to that of the proprietary JDK.
>
> Yes, of course, that is what my proposal does. But instead of hardcoding
> an arbitrary number (_16) it generates it from the actual icedtea
> package version (_17) so it actually has meaning as update version
> number.
>
Agreed! Should I go ahead and make the change then (to dynamically set
it based on package version)? Any objections?
Deepak
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