Revisiting JDK-4512189: ZipConstants leaking into public APIs

[Alan Bateman]

On 28/11/2023 15:50, Eirik Bjørsnøs wrote:
> :
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> In light of this, I would like to revisit this issue, 22 years later:
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> - Is my assessment that this change is actually not binary 
> incompatible sound, or did I miss something?
> - Would it in any case make sense to mark ZipConstants as @Deprecated, 
> maybe for removal to alert people we want to remove the constants?
> - Could we aim to make the mentioned classes *not* implement 
> ZipConstants, following the regular deprecation process, CSR and 
> release note etc?
>
This is a JDK 1.1 era mistake. It would a source incompatible change to 
"remove" the constants. It would require corpus searches to gauge the 
impact. I think the question is whether it's worth the disruption, is 
your motivation to cleanup this area or something stronger?

-Alan