RFR: 8221610: Resurrect (legacy) JRE bundle target

[Langer, Christoph]

Hi Andrew,

it has been pushed to 11.0.4 already a while ago:  https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8222119

Is that what you mean?

Best regards
Christoph

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com>
> Sent: Mittwoch, 22. Mai 2019 11:16
> To: Langer, Christoph <christoph.langer at sap.com>
> Cc: jdk-updates-dev at openjdk.java.net; Schuenemann, Rene
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> Subject: Re: RFR: 8221610: Resurrect (legacy) JRE bundle target
> 
> On 3/29/19 11:18 AM, Langer, Christoph wrote:
> >> I'm curious who these "stakeholders" are and what they use these JRE
> >> bundle for? As you know, moving to a modular platform has blurred the
> >> historical distinction between what we knew as the JRE and JDK in the
> >> past. Are they concerned about disk space?
> > I think the requirement comes mostly from people that work with
> CloudFoundry buildpacks. Eventually I think they should be educated on how
> they can leverage jlink based images but currently they still pull JRE images.
> Most probably their main concern is image size.
> 
> Can we get this done for 11, please? You have reviews and approval.
> 
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