JEP proposed to target JDK 11: 336: Deprecate the Pack200 Tools and API

[Emmanuel Bourg]

Le 15/06/2018 à 01:06, mark.reinhold at oracle.com a écrit :

> Hearing no objections, I’ve targeted this JEP to JDK 11.

Hi Mark, there was a couple of replies on this topic though:

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2018-June/001371.html
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2018-June/001382.html

Do I understand correctly that pack200 will be in JDK 11 but might be
removed in a later release?

If maintaining this technology is a burden for Oracle, could community
involvement help reverse this decision?

Emmanuel Bourg