On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 17:11:18 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <i...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> Also, it might be worth repeating one of my long-standing wishes: that the > version string should not be hard-coded into the build, but e.g. stored as a > string in the `release` file, and read from there. If we did that, the cost > of changing the version string would be negligible, and we wouldn't need to > worry as much about it. It would also be simple to compare different builds > which end up with the same bits since they are built from the same sources, > but by different version flags (e.g. -ea vs GA). (In fact, we'd turn a -ea > build into a GA just by updating the version string, so we'd know for sure we > are publishing what we tested.) +1 This would be a great step in making comparability (beyond reproducibility) of builds of OpenJDK at lot simpler. ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/18136#issuecomment-1984065312
