Reported Java version

Henri Gomez henri.gomez at gmail.com
Thu Sep 22 00:56:12 PDT 2011


I'm working on updating reported build version for OpenJDK OSX package :

On latest package for Linux (provided by Oracle) I could see :

java version "1.7.0"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0-b147)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 21.0-b17, mixed mode)

For now on OS/X, java -version report like this :

openjdk version "1.7.0-internal"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0-internal-b00)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 21.0-b17, mixed mode)

I'm thinking replacing -b00 by -b20110922 so users could get the build
date (and provide better error reporting)

openjdk version "1.7.0-internal"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0-internal-b20110922)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 21.0-b17, mixed mode)

I was wondering about -internal and how it could be changed to something else.

I noticed this build calendard here :

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/builds/

u2 b04..b08

So for OS/X how are we now, comparing to Linux with all backports from
bsd branches ?
Could we skip the -internal now ?

Clarifications are very welcomed.


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