New candidate JEP: 336: Deprecate the Pack200 Tools and API

[Michel Trudeau]

Daniel,

We will not be removing Pack200 in Java 12.

-Michel


On Jun 12, 2018, at 1:50 PM, Daniel Megert <daniel_megert at ch.ibm.com> wrote:

pack200 is used by the Eclipse update manager a.k.a. p2. The JARed 
plug-ins are compressed with pack200 and put into a p2 repository. 
Removing pack200 will make the download (and hence install) of plug-ins 
much slower. Eclipse would therefore like to keep this technology. If 
that's not an option, then we would like that the removal does not happen 
before Java 13.

Dani
Eclipse PMC