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

[Simon Nash]

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 suggest we use "amd64" instead of "x64" (or any other variants).
> "x64" is confusingly close to "x86", and while it's used by some
> companies (including Oracle), it's not used all that widely.  "amd64" is
> better known, matches the long-standing value of the "os.arch" system
> property (on Linux and Windows, anyway) and, as a side benefit, honors
> the originators of the architecture.
> 
> - Mark
> 

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.

Simon