On 21.03.2018 15:41, Ariel Weisberg wrote: > I'm not clear on what building and bundling our own JRE/JDK accomplishes?
If we talk about OpenJDK, there will be only a single Java version supported at any time and that is the latest Java version (11, 12, ..). There is no overlap between supported versions. Therefor it doesn't really make a lot of sense for us to officially support "a few releases of the JDK" when we talk about OpenJDK releases. What we'd have to do is to keep up with new Java versions by testing them and updating our code base if necessary. Keep in mind that branches like 4.0 and 3.11 will span several Java versions. We can do this by communicating a list of branches and corresponding Java releases that are officially supported. But we can also just bundle and ship the latest OpenJDK release that we know is to be working for any Cassandra branch right away, which would avoid any incompatibility issues between our releases and JREs installed by the user and is probably easier for everyone. But thats pretty much the biggest selling point on bundling the JRE, but will probably not happen anyway due to the licensing restrictions. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org
