java -version output for JDK8

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> Hi Kumar,
> 
> On 07/25/2013 07:05 PM, Kumar Srinivasan wrote:
> > Changing any of these lines is very painful, because too many
> > scripts and tests have made assumptions on these lines, and some of
> > these are System properties which are baked at build time.
> 

People have been building with this fixed since 2007, as have all your
proprietary builds.

> I am looking at it from the users' point of view. Oracle (proprietary)
> JDKs claim to be "java version..." as do IBM (proprietary) JDKs. Isn't
> openjdk the odd one out if it claims to be "openjdk version..."?
> 

Yes.

> I also think it will be much more painful for all our users to have to
> fix their scripts and tests if any of those scripts or tests happen to
> rely on the output of "java -version". Fixing our tests and scripts
> would surely be less painful.
> 
> Thanks,
> Omair
> 

No packages have ever shipped using "openjdk version", which is why I
immediately noticed it as a regression.  So the discussion is moot really.
It's still going to get changed back in local packages.  It would just be
better to have it fixed upstream.
-- 
Andrew :)

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