Hi,
As I understand (correct me if I'm wrong) this is not a about a specific
platform (windows) JDK, but a change between Oracle and OpenJDK
relationship.
OpenJDK will not benefit from all Oracle improvments/corrections,
Oracle will give back it's source code for new JDK version to OpenJDK
every 6 month, just for the new versions, not it's bug fixes/patches or
whatever is in it's "LTS" version code,
So there will be only Oracle's JDK LTS (not free), or new OpenJDK
release every 6 month for windows, linux & mac.
No OpenJDK LTS with security patches, unless someone else do the LTS
patch/bug fixes work.
"For the first 6 months of Java 11’s life, Oracle will be providing
GPL+CE licensed $free zero-cost downloads at jdk.java.net with security
patches. To get GPL+CE licensed $free zero-cost update releases of Java
11 after the first six months, you are likely to need to obtain them
from a different URL and a different build team."
from
https://jaxenter.com/oracle-jdk-builds-openjdk-builds-difference-149318.html
"Developers want to move fast and enterprises want stability"
https://mreinhold.org/blog/forward-faster
...
bests,
Alain
On 14/09/2018 14:47, Jiri Daněk wrote:
On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 2:30 PM Tim Bain <tb...@alumni.duke.edu> wrote:
There are Windows and MacOS builds of the OpenJDK alongside the Linux one
at http://jdk.java.net/10/. What am I missing that makes for a dire
situation on Windows?
That you cannot download patched OpenJDK 9 or 8 builds from the site, as I
understand it. Only the build of latest version of java will be made
available, for 6 months, and then everybody depending on builds from the
upstream directly would have to upgrade.
