On 12/14/2018 10:03 AM, Michael Hall wrote:
On Dec 14, 2018, at 11:58 AM, Phil Race <philip.r...@oracle.com> wrote:
"Incomplete" meant "JDK 12 is not yet completed".
Perhaps that could have been worded differently like "a non-final version of
JDK12".
I think the intent was to make it clear what JDK version this was. Eg it is not
built on top
of 11 GA. It is built on top of the current JDK development branch .. which
happens to be
intended to become 12. And actually the NEXT build will be built on top of JDK
13 ..
since 12 just forked off to be stablised for release.
jpackage can't be separated from the JDK any more than all the other tools
that ship with JDK. It is not going to be a "standalone" tool that "happens"
to be bundled with the JDK.
OK fair enough, got that. This just made me wonder though, would JDK 12 be the
only JRE that can be targeted for packaging?
It can only make JDK 12 executables?
No, the purpose of the --runtime-image option is to allow bundling other
JREs with your app. Specifically, we will test the ability to bundle a
JRE 11.
-- Kevin
