RFR: 8238650: Allow to override buildDate with SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH

[John Neffenger]

On Sat, 27 Mar 2021 03:34:11 GMT, Bernhard M. Wiedemann <github.com+637990+bmwiedemann at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Now the interesting question is, if it is possible to change `listFiles` to always return deterministic output ...

Yes, that would be interesting, if `listFiles()` were defined by the Gradle build tool. I think it originates, though, in the Java [java.io.File.listFiles][1] API and is made available to Gradle through the Groovy programming language. The API states, "There is no guarantee that the name strings in the resulting array will appear in any specific order; they are not, in particular, guaranteed to appear in alphabetical order." That API was defined in December 1998 with Java version 1.2, so there's no changing it now.

[1]: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/16/docs/api/java.base/java/io/File.html#listFiles()

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jfx/pull/99