RFD: Should jextract be extracted from the JDK?

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

Hi,
not sure I understand your question correctly.

But if you are referring to the fact that jextract should *not* be part 
of the JDK, please note that the FFM API does _not_ include jextract. 
The jextract tool is instead made available in a standalone repository:

https://github.com/openjdk/jextract

For which binary snapshots are also provided here:

https://jdk.java.net/jextract/

(this change happened roughly an year ago [1]).

Cheers
Maurizio

[1] - https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/panama-dev/2022-March/016632.html


On 25/03/2023 18:05, Eirik Bjørsnøs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'll raise this periodic (?) question for discussion, but first I want 
> to make it clear I have no opinion myself.
>
> Here is the question in question:
>
> Should jextract be extracted from the JDK? If so, would it make sense 
> to do it now rather than later?
>
> I'm asking this because I remember this being presented as an open 
> question early in the introduction of project Panama. As time has 
> passed by, maybe we have learned something which could influence this 
> discussion?
>
> There seems to be an increasing number of questions and concerns 
> related to jextract in OpenJDK, perhaps containing them in a separate 
> release cycle would do good?
>
> Thanks,
> Eirik.