Re: openjdk-9-jdk rebuild: Second pass
On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 10:28:27AM +0100, Chris West wrote:
> > > 16% are broken due to probably intentional changes in Java 9, e.g.
> > > * modules changing accessiblity of things (~90 packages)
>
> I now believe that the accessibility checks are being turned off by default.
> This was one of the conditions of the first JCP vote failing. So it's possible
> that many of these will go away with a new (possibly as-yet unreleased) openjdk
> build. I have been unable to find a relevant upstream commit, although
> there's plenty it could be in, e.g.
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/jdk/rev/f8b19df2115a [two weeks ago]
>
> Discussion:
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jigsaw-dev/2017-May/012673.html
> http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/spec/minutes/2017-05-22
>
> https://londonjavacommunity.wordpress.com/2017/06/28/our-yes-vote-on-the-2nd-go-around-for-jsr-376-java-platform-module-system/
> > Agreement on relaxing Strong encapsulation as a default (means fewer
> > apps will break out of the box, but get a warning instead).
>
http://zulu.org/forum/thread/discussion-on-zulu-9-pre-release-13/ says
that is has landed, so will be picked up by an update of the openjdk-9
package to build >=176 (2017-06-29).
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