On 2017-04-03 23:50, Mandy Chung wrote:
On Apr 3, 2017, at 2:39 PM, mark.reinh...@oracle.com wrote:

2017/4/3 13:35:30 -0700, si...@cjnash.com:
On 03/04/2017 21:15, mark.reinh...@oracle.com wrote:
2017/4/3 11:41:03 -0700, mandy.ch...@oracle.com:
Webrev:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/jdk9/webrevs/8175819/webrev.00/

...

This shows the old and new value of OS_NAME/OS_ARCH properties
in the `release` file:

           JDK 8               JDK 9
           -----               -----
OS_NAME     Linux               linux
           SunOS               solaris
           Darwin              osx
           Windows             windows

OS_ARCH     i386,x86            x86
           i586,amd64,x86_64   x64
           sparcv9             sparcv9
           arm                 arm32
           aarch64             arm64
I am not sure why we would change to osx for Mac when the Mac developers
have recently dropped the Mac OS X terminology and changed it to macOS.
Agreed -- we should change OS_NAME from "Darwin" to "macos”.
OK.  Should the bundle names be updated to reflect this change?
In any case, it is a separate issue.

            JDK 8               JDK 9
            -----               -----
OS_NAME    Linux               linux
            SunOS               solaris
            Darwin              macos
            Windows             windows

OS_ARCH    i386,x86            x86
            i586,amd64,x86_64   amd64
            sparcv9             sparcv9
            arm                 arm32
            aarch64             arm64
If we are making changes to the original proposal from JDK-8175819, then I just want to add my few cents:

Why change from the well-established "aarch64" to the virtually unused "arm64"? As far as I know, using the name "arm64" for the aarch64 platform is something that has only been done in the (recently opened) closed Oracle port. This change, however, proposes to change the value in the release file even for the open aarch64 port, which has always been known by that name.

/Magnus


Mandy


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