Given the feedback, I have revised the patch to restore the ability to
produce a legacy jre image, but it is still removed from the default
"product-images" and "images" targets. To build it you need to specify
it explicitly as "legacy-jre-image" (or mac-legacy-jre-bundle for the
macosx specific image layout). I still removed the bundle targets for
the jre image as I very much doubt anyone except Oracle was using them
anyway. In addition to this, I also updated the help text a bit to
reflect these changes.
Will this be good enough for those that still need a JRE image?
Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8200132/webrev.02/index.html
/Erik
On 2018-06-01 15:02, Erik Joelsson wrote:
Since JDK 9 and modules, the idea of a prebuilt JRE is no longer
providing much value. The idea is rather that you link together an
image with the modules and settings you actually need, either with or
without your application. For this reason oracle will no longer ship
JRE images that differ content wise to the JDK image in JDK 11 and we
would like to remove them from the OpenJDK build to reduce complexity.
Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8200132
Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8200132/webrev.01/
/Erik
