Review Request JDK-8175819: OS name and arch in JMOD files should match the values as in the bundle name

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On 2017-04-03 23:50, Mandy Chung wrote:
>> On Apr 3, 2017, at 2:39 PM, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
>>
>> 2017/4/3 13:35:30 -0700, simon at cjnash.com:
>>> On 03/04/2017 21:15, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
>>>> 2017/4/3 11:41:03 -0700, mandy.chung at oracle.com:
>>>>> Webrev:
>>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/jdk9/webrevs/8175819/webrev.00/
>>>>>
>>>>> ...
>>>>>
>>>>> This shows the old and new value of OS_NAME/OS_ARCH properties
>>>>> in the `release` file:
>>>>>
>>>>>            JDK 8               JDK 9
>>>>>            -----               -----
>>>>> OS_NAME     Linux               linux
>>>>>            SunOS               solaris
>>>>>            Darwin              osx
>>>>>            Windows             windows
>>>>>
>>>>> OS_ARCH     i386,x86            x86
>>>>>            i586,amd64,x86_64   x64
>>>>>            sparcv9             sparcv9
>>>>>            arm                 arm32
>>>>>            aarch64             arm64
>>> I am not sure why we would change to osx for Mac when the Mac developers
>>> have recently dropped the Mac OS X terminology and changed it to macOS.
>> Agreed -- we should change OS_NAME from "Darwin" to "macos”.
> OK.  Should the bundle names be updated to reflect this change?
> In any case, it is a separate issue.
>
>             JDK 8               JDK 9
>             -----               -----
> OS_NAME    Linux               linux
>             SunOS               solaris
>             Darwin              macos
>             Windows             windows
>
> OS_ARCH    i386,x86            x86
>             i586,amd64,x86_64   amd64
>             sparcv9             sparcv9
>             arm                 arm32
>             aarch64             arm64
If we are making changes to the original proposal from JDK-8175819, then 
I just want to add my few cents:

Why change from the well-established "aarch64" to the virtually unused 
"arm64"? As far as I know, using the name "arm64" for the aarch64 
platform is something that has only been done in the (recently opened) 
closed Oracle port. This change, however, proposes to change the value 
in the release file even for the open aarch64 port, which has always 
been known by that name.

/Magnus

>
> Mandy
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