On 2016-01-11 22:44, Iris Clark wrote:
Hi, Joe, Roger, Alan, Magnus, and Mandy.

At the end of December (shortly before the Christmas/Winter
break and my vacation), I provided responses to your messages
and an updated webrev:

   http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~iris/verona/8072379/webrev.2/

I didn't hear from anybody, so I'd like to optimistically assume
that you were satisfied.  Is that correct?

I'm basically happy. As other reviewers, I think the regexes are a bit tough to parse (regexes always are), and some additional comments on the effect would be appreciated. Thanh Hong Dai had some good suggestions as well on how to improve readability.

I noted that your java source file had a lot of initial tabs instead of spaces. I'm not sure if we have any code guidelines about this, but I have not encountered that in the JDK source base before, so I'd recommend you turn them into spaces.

/Magnus



For you convenience, here's a reference to the December and November
threads:

     
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2015-December/037062.html
     
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2015-November/036904.html

I'd like to wrap up this work for the initial implementation of
jdk.Version soon.

Regards,
iris

-----Original Message-----
From: Iris Clark
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2015 1:55 PM
To: Joe Darcy; Mandy Chung
Cc: core-libs-dev@openjdk.java.net; verona-...@openjdk.java.net
Subject: RE: RFR: 8072379: Implement jdk.Version and jdk.OracleVersion

Hi, Joe.

Thanks for the review comments.

     http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~irisa/verona/8072379/webrev.1/
Is the intention that downstream JDK distributions, such as IcedTea,
whether based on OpenJDK or otherwise, would provide their own
specialization of the jdk.Version class?
No.  Downstream users may provide their own specialization, but there is no 
requirement that they must do so.

jdk.OracleVersion has been removed.  The functionality it provided, access to 
the fourth element of the version number, is trivially accessed by existing 
methods in jdk.Version.

I've filed the following bug to address the more general use case:

     8145793:  Provide vendor-specific interpretation of a JDK version string
     https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8145793

The equals / hashCode behavior of Version and OracleVersion is bit
surprising and I think somewhat underspecified given the possibility
of defining subclasses.
Given the above regarding downstream use, I've make jdk.Version final and the 
constructor is now private.  Oracle or any other JDK distribution wishing to 
impose additional semantics to the version string interpretation will need to 
do so via encapsulation rather than inheritance.

How is this API supposed to behave if the component version strings
have a numerical value greater than Integer.MAX_VALUE?
 From the specification of the only instance method, Version.parse():

      * @throws  NumberFormatException
      *          If an element of the version number or the build number cannot
      *          be represented as an {@link Integer}

Was using Longs to record numerical versions rather than Integers
considered?
Yes.  In an informal poll conducted during implementation, it was thought that 
2^32 bits would be more than sufficient to represent the components of typical 
version numbers.

An updated webrev is forthcoming.

Thanks,
iris

PS:  I believe that we are both out the week of 21 December, so I don't expect 
to hear back from you until the New Year.

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