openjdk: remove 9 #38136
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per http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html, Java 9's end of life is March 2018. we need to retain it only in order to bootstrap the build of Java 10, which requires a modular JDK as its bootstrap JDK.
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Gah, sorry to step on your toes -- I actually got to this last night myself. See #38097 -- it also includes a removal of Java 9, 7, and I bootstrapped Java 10 with Java 10 itself, which required spinning new bootstrap binaries. |
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No problem, much more thorough that what I'd done here! I'd much rather have too many of us racing to improve Java in nixpkgs than the other way around ... :) |
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per http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html, Java 9's
end of life is March 2018.
we need to retain it only in order to bootstrap the build of Java 10,
which requires a modular JDK as its bootstrap JDK.
Motivation for this change
as discussed in #36703; cc @NeQuissimus @rycee @thoughtpolice @fpletz @edwtjo
Things done
build-use-sandboxinnix.confon non-NixOS)nix-shell -p nox --run "nox-review wip"./result/bin/)