This is an approach to adding a flag to jlink that will allow --compress to take the same types of arguments as jmod, thus bringing the two into alignment. This likely requires a CSR and a discussion on whether we should deprecate or simply remove the original numeric compression arguments.
------------- Commit messages: - 8293667: Align jlink's --compress option with jmod's --compress option Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11617/files Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=11617&range=00 Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8293667 Stats: 95 lines in 5 files changed: 87 ins; 3 del; 5 mod Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11617.diff Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk pull/11617/head:pull/11617 PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11617
