Open a JIRA and I'll see what I can do. A.
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Steve Loughran <[email protected]> wrote: > Is anyone going to try installing these on the Jenkins machines? > > Given the changes in JDK9 it's probably best for people to install locally > and get the builds & tests working before delegating to Jenkins > > On 10 Mar 2015, at 04:06, Rory O'Donnell <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > Hi Mark & Gavin, > > > > Early Access build for JDK 9 b53 <https://jdk9.java.net/download/> > available on java.net, summary of changes are listed here < > http://www.java.net/download/jdk9/changes/jdk9-b53.html> > > > > Early Access build for JDK 8u60 b05 <http://jdk8.java.net/download.html> > is available on java.net, summary of changes are listed here. < > http://www.java.net/download/jdk8u60/changes/jdk8u60-b05.html> > > > > I'd also like to use this opportunity to point you to JEP 238: > Multi-Version JAR Files [0], > > which is currently a Candidate JEP for JDK 9. > > > > It's goal is to extend the JAR file format to allow multiple, JDK > release-specific versions of class > > files to coexist in a single file. An additional goal is to backport the > run-time changes to > > JDK 8u60, thereby enabling JDK 8 to consume multi-version JARs. For a > detailed discussion, > > please see the corresponding thread on the core-libs-dev mailing list. > [1] > > > > Please keep in mind that a JEP in the Candidate state is merely an idea > worthy of consideration > > by JDK Release Projects and related efforts; there is no commitment that > it will be delivered in > > any particular release. > > > > Comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome on the corelibs-dev > mailing list. (If you > > haven’t already subscribed to that list then please do so first, > otherwise your message will be > > discarded as spam.) > > > > Rgds,Rory > > > > [0] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/238 > > [1] > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2015-February/031461.html > > > > > > -- > > Rgds,Rory O'Donnell > > Quality Engineering Manager > > Oracle EMEA , Dublin, Ireland > > > >
