New candidate JEP: 336: Deprecate the Pack200 Tools and API
Daniel Megert
daniel_megert at ch.ibm.com
Tue Jun 12 20:50:37 UTC 2018
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
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