JREs are a very long tradition. I suggest deferring disruptive changes like this to some release past jdk11.
On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 3:02 PM, Erik Joelsson <erik.joels...@oracle.com> wrote: > Since JDK 9 and modules, the idea of a prebuilt JRE is no longer providing > much value. The idea is rather that you link together an image with the > modules and settings you actually need, either with or without your > application. For this reason oracle will no longer ship JRE images that > differ content wise to the JDK image in JDK 11 and we would like to remove > them from the OpenJDK build to reduce complexity. > > Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8200132 > > Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8200132/webrev.01/ > > /Erik > >
