On 7/25/13 4:26 p.m., Omair Majid wrote: > Hi Kumar, > > On 07/25/2013 07:05 PM, Kumar Srinivasan wrote: >> Changing any of these lines is very painful, because too many >> scripts and tests have made assumptions on these lines, and some of >> these are System properties which are baked at build time. > I am looking at it from the users' point of view. Oracle (proprietary) > JDKs claim to be "java version..." as do IBM (proprietary) JDKs. Isn't > openjdk the odd one out if it claims to be "openjdk version..."? > > I also think it will be much more painful for all our users to have to > fix their scripts and tests if any of those scripts or tests happen to > rely on the output of "java -version". Fixing our tests and scripts > would surely be less painful. > > Thanks, > Omair I note that "java -XshowSettings" prints out all sorts of info in a structured format. Scripts might want to use this if possible.
Steven
