Re: Fwd: JEP 223: New Version-String Scheme

2014-11-04 Thread Ron Wheeler
On 05/11/2014 1:18 AM, Mirko Friedenhagen wrote: And the scheme as I read it is MAJOR.FEATURE_MINOR.SECURITY.PATCHLEVEL and FEATURE_MINOR and SECURITY are sort of independent, so a bigger minor might be less secure. Regards Mirko I gather that the assumption is that 9.2.20 would include all of

Re: Fwd: JEP 223: New Version-String Scheme

2014-11-04 Thread Mirko Friedenhagen
And the scheme as I read it is MAJOR.FEATURE_MINOR.SECURITY.PATCHLEVEL and FEATURE_MINOR and SECURITY are sort of independent, so a bigger minor might be less secure. Regards Mirko -- Sent from my mobile On Nov 4, 2014 11:10 PM, "Paul Benedict" wrote: > Finally, JDK versioning will be 3 numbers

Fwd: JEP 223: New Version-String Scheme

2014-11-04 Thread Paul Benedict
Finally, JDK versioning will be 3 numbers... sort of. The qualifier is non-standard (plus sign and build number). But it still beats 4 numbers. Cheers, Paul -- Forwarded message -- From: Date: Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 4:05 PM Subject: JEP 223: New Version-String Scheme To: iris.cl...@