10 RFR 8192833: JEP 322: Time-Based Release Versioning

[David Holmes]

Hi Mark,

On 6/12/2017 2:18 AM, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
> JEP: http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/322
> CSR: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8192855
> RFE: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8192833
> 
> Specdiff: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mr/jeps/322/specdiff/
> Webrev:   http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mr/jeps/322/rev/
> 
> The substantive changes are in these files:
> 
>    make/autoconf/jdk-version.m4
>    make/autoconf/version-numbers
>    src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/Runtime.java

I've commented in the CSR that I would have expected the 
no-longer-applicable Runtime.Version methods to be deprecated, not 
outright removed (and replaced with newly named methods).

David

>    src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/VersionProps.java.template
>    test/jdk/java/lang/Runtime/Version/Basic.java
> 
> Otherwise, this is mostly a straightforward renaming of identifiers
> involving (major|minor|security) to (feature|interim|update).
> 
> We've already forked HotSpot for JDK 10 stabilization, so to reduce risk
> this patch does not attempt to rename all internal identifiers of the
> form .*(major|minor|security).* in the HotSpot code.  That can be done
> as a cleanup later on.
> 
> jdk-tier{1,2,3} and hs-tier1 test runs are clean.
> 
> Thanks,
> - Mark
>