RFR: JDK-8200132: Remove jre images and bundles (original) (raw)

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Tue Jun 5 08:41:46 UTC 2018

On 04/06/2018 22:22, Erik Joelsson wrote:

Given the feedback, I have revised the patch to restore the ability to produce a legacy jre image, but it is still removed from the default "product-images" and "images" targets. To build it you need to specify it explicitly as "legacy-jre-image" (or mac-legacy-jre-bundle for the macosx specific image layout). I still removed the bundle targets for the jre image as I very much doubt anyone except Oracle was using them anyway. In addition to this, I also updated the help text a bit to reflect these changes.

Will this be good enough for those that still need a JRE image? Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8200132/webrev.02/index.html This looks okay to me, and seems better than the configure option mentioned in one of the mails.

I think you will still need to do some communication about this change, maybe to jdk-dev so that folks that may be relying on the jre image know that they need to build the legacy-jre-image target.

I suspect this area of the build will be re-visited again if the Java Packager JEP goes ahead as that will need a similar list of modules and maybe options.

-Alan.

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