On 29.07.2016 11:43, Andrew Dinn wrote:
Jigsaw code from a debugger. Not everyone involved is in a position to build (and keep on rebuilding) a Jigsaw JDK9 release from scratch.
Broadly speaking, Early Access builds try to serve the needs of the many, rather than the needs of the few.
The latter group does have the option of producing their own builds based off the source code in corresponding OpenJDK forests to address needs currently not served, being able to strike their own balance between needs and effort required to satisfy them.
I would assume such needs to typically be short-term, such as the temporary need for a special build with some debugging property.
Externalizing the effort to produce and manage short-term build efforts allows them to take place, and conclude at their own pace without adding additional burdens on the production and the often very short lifecycle of the mainstream ones.
In short, if the answer to the question "will almost everyone, including all the users that don't care at all about working on OpenJDK, need this in an Early Access build during all the years or months of the development of a JDK Release Project or a feature" is a resounding yes, then it may make sense for the mainstream builds.
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