RFR: 8341134: Deprecate for removal the jrunscript tool

[Athijegannathan Sundararajan]

On Mon, 7 Oct 2024 04:23:20 GMT, Jaikiran Pai <jpai at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Can I please get  a review for this change which proposes to deprecate for removal the `jrunscript` tool?
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> The `jrunscript` tool as documented in its specification https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/23/docs/specs/man/jrunscript.html was an experimental and unsupported tool. Ever since the script engine implementations have been removed from the JDK, the default usage of this tool has been non-functional:
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> $> jrunscript
> script engine for language js can not be found
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> The tool itself could be launched by specifying a script engine implementation in the classpath, in which case it will use that script engine implementation. However, given that the JDK itself ships no such engines anymore and since there are no plans to continue support for this tool, the tool will now print a deprecation warning in preparation for its removal from a future release.
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> No new tests have been added and existing tests in tier1, tier2 and tier3 continue to pass. I will draft a CSR (and a release note) shortly.

Marked as reviewed by sundar (Reviewer).

That documentation comment in module-info.java of java.scripting has to be updated for deprecation info of the tool (as you noted)

Other changes look good to me

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21380#pullrequestreview-2350841733
PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21380#issuecomment-2395891269