[jdk8u-dev] RFR: 8221988: add possibility to build with Visual Studio 2019

Fri Apr 8 15:51:40 UTC 2022

On Fri, 8 Apr 2022 14:30:16 GMT, Christoph Langer <clanger at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> I completely agree with you but that is how it comes from 11u. I'm not sure if it's a good idea to make such changes as part of the backport. On my last backport to 8u @gnu-andrew made me to eliminate every signle whitespace of unwanted delta.
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> Yes, let @gnu-andrew or @jerboaa deliver the judgement here.

My understanding is that the order for different JDK releases may differ. Newer JDKs might want to build with the newest toolchain if possible. That's different for update releases. So if we backport this, versions for 2017 and 2019 should go to the end. See for example `8196108: Add build support for VS 2015/2017 ` which added this 4 years ago for 2015 and 2017.

TLDR; For compatibility we shall append.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u-dev/pull/33