RFR: 8140344: add support for 3 digit update release numbers

[David Holmes]

On 24/11/2015 12:24 AM, Rob McKenna wrote:
> Thanks David, I'll mark this 9-na. (bcc'ing verona-dev)
>
> Something similar was fixed in 7
> (https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8009634) - that may be what
> you're thinking of.

6 hit this with 6u101 first, so presumably it was addressed there (and 
there was a big bug tail for that).

> Aside from that are you ok with the changes?

Sorry I didn't actually review the code.

David

>      -Rob
>
> On 18/11/15 09:00, David Holmes wrote:
>> On 18/11/2015 1:30 AM, Rob McKenna wrote:
>>> I'd expect this to be superseded by 223 completely but I've cc'd
>>> verona-dev in case there are objections. At this point the fix is more
>>> for the benefit of 7 & 8. I'd be happy to mark this 9-na if that makes
>>> more sense?
>>
>> I'd vote for a 7 (and 8?) specific fix. Didn't this already get fixed
>> in 6.
>>
>> David
>>
>>>      -Rob
>>>
>>> On 17/11/15 15:19, Alan Bateman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 17/11/2015 14:47, Rob McKenna wrote:
>>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>>
>>>>> With 7u hitting 101 shortly we've noticed that our Version parsing
>>>>> infrastructure balks at the extra digit. With that in mind I'd like to
>>>>> update the logic surrounding the parsing of version numbers and the
>>>>> test itself to use regex instead of the less flexible
>>>>> CharacterSequence method.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~robm/8140344/webrev.01/
>>>> Would it be better to bring this to verona-dev so that this can be
>>>> looked at in the context of the JEP 223 changes?
>>>>
>>>> -Alan