Proposal: Newer version-string scheme for the Java SE Platform and the JDK (original) (raw)

Matthias Klose doko at ubuntu.com
Mon Nov 6 13:34:31 UTC 2017

On 02.11.2017 16:11, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:

Here's a specific proposal, with commentary, and two questions.

Summary: This is a time-based scheme, similar to alternative (C) in my earlier note [1][2] but even closer to the current scheme as defined in JEP 223 [3]. It's hence even less likely to surprise, and should be easier to adopt.

As mentioned in a different thread, it is currently not possible to include the build id/number of a downstream build into the version information. I understand that it should be possible to parse the upstream version, however not having the possibility to include the downstream build version in some version information makes it difficult to identify specific downstream builds. Please could you add the ability to include a version comment which is literally included in or appended to the version information?

E.g. configuring GCC with --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu 7.2.0-8ubuntu3' results in

$ gcc --version gcc (Ubuntu 7.2.0-8ubuntu3) 7.2.0

So you have the upstream version, and the id/distro version in the version string.

Thanks, Matthias

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