ea tags for the short lived jdk versions?

[Dalibor Topic]

On 11.10.2019 18:34, Matthias Klose wrote:
> On 11.10.19 15:33, Dalibor Topic wrote:
>> On 10.10.2019 23:52, Langer, Christoph wrote:
>>> Unfortunately, there are no build tags (yet) for certain update 
>>> releases, e.g. 13.0.1-n or 13.0.2-n. They'll only be merged back from 
>>> the internal Oracle repositories that are used to build the update 
>>> releases after GA of an update release. I, however, agree that it 
>>> would be nicer if OpenJDK Update release development could be done 
>>> more in the open by Oracle and we could see regular tags (just as we 
>>> have in 8u and 11u OpenJDK projects). But I guess Oracle would need 
>>> to change their processes a bit for that. Maybe Rob wants to comment 
>>> on it...
>>
>> We don't publish EA builds of JDK 13 CPU updates so there wouldn't be 
>> anything really meaningful to tag in the repo.
> 
> well, yes, that's what I see today.  No need to re-state the obvious ;)
> 
> If I do an ea build from the tip, then I get a build with the very same 
> version, as the ga tag.  Which version should I use for that, inventing 
> a mystery meat version? Just removing the ga flag?  Should I assume the 
> version for the next release, and inventing one?  It's always good to 
> test a build with all the stuff just before the security release.
>

I think that's mostly answered by https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/322

"Version strings

The overall format of version strings is the same as that defined in JEP 
223. A version string is a version number, $VNUM, possibly followed by 
pre-release, build, and other optional information, one of:

$VNUM(-$PRE)?\+$BUILD(-$OPT)?
$VNUM-$PRE(-$OPT)?
$VNUM(+-$OPT)?

where $PRE is a pre-release identifier (e.g., ea), $BUILD is a build 
number, and $OPT is optional build information."

So, for example, 13.0.2-ea-55626 could be a way to indicate an EA build 
of 13.0.2 that is built with the tip at the 55626'th changeset.

Keep in mind that there is more relevant stuff in that JEP than just 
this snippet, like new properties you may want to look at.

cheers,
dalibor topic
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