RFR: JDK-8200083: Bump bootjdk used for JDK 11 at Oracle to JDK 10 (original) (raw)

Jonathan Gibbons jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com
Fri Apr 6 17:34:10 UTC 2018

On 04/06/2018 09:57 AM, Erik Joelsson wrote:

On 2018-04-06 09:51, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:

I think the N-1 policy should be more clearly stated as "last GA". When we started work on JDK 11, JDK 10 had not yet shipped, and so it was appropriate for JDK 11 to use JDK 9 as the boot jdk. Now that JDK 10 has shipped, it becomes a candidate to be a boot JDK, and becomes the most recent GA JDK version. I like that, but don't you mean min("last GA", N-1)? /Erik

Yes, I guess the difference comes into play for updates, when JDK N might itself be GA.

I guess you could less mathematically describe it as the "previous GA" policy.

-- Jon

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