[oe] [meta-java][PATCH 4/4] openjdk-8: add recipes for openjdk-8 and openjre-8

[Richard Leitner]

On 10/29/2015 12:24 PM, Jens Rehsack wrote:
> 
>> Am 29.10.2015 um 11:46 schrieb Otavio Salvador <otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br>:
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 7:22 AM, Jens Rehsack <rehsack at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Am 29.10.2015 um 08:41 schrieb Richard Leitner <richard.leitner at skidata.com>:
>>>> To cite Otavio:
>>>> We could rename the patches directory for openjdk-7 and avoid the
>>>> version number on it. This would make easier for upgrades and to see
>>>> the diff between the patches.
>>>
>>> So git diff -M doesn't work for you? I don't understand the reasoning.
>>
>> It does but reusing the directory easy the upgrade and as the
>> openjdk-8 is in maintenance it is expected that it does not change
>> much in the patches.
> 
> Partial. As I told you, I updated OpenJDK from 8u40 to 8u72 when I first
> encountered massive crashes on the target device with zeroshark until
> llvm guys told me, that legacy JIT for ARM was utterly broken and they
> force people to MCJIT.
> 
> Having both directories during the upgrade helped me massively to
> avoid breaking patches by fixing against new upstream adoptions.
> 
> Surely, this could be handled developer-side by keeping an foo.old
> directory - but it smells the same smell ;)
> 
> I don't fight against renaming the directory, I just argue, both
> way have their own kind of smell.
> 

I really understand both sides... But for me, due to the fact we want to
support only one version of each OpenJDK release, the patch directory
without version has "a better smell" ;-)

I would also go one step further and omit the version from
openjdk-7-release-*.inc. Then the version number is only included in the
name of the openjdk-7_*.bb file.

But I'm open to any discussion! So what do you think about it?