Thanks Erik, We do have quite a few requests to build that jRE for AdoptOpenJDK binaries, and this should let us continue doing that.
Cheers, Martijn On 5 June 2018 at 09:41, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote: > 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. >
