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

[mark.reinhold at oracle.com]

2018/6/14 16:56:41 -0700, Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg at apache.org>:
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> Do I understand correctly that pack200 will be in JDK 11 but might be
> removed in a later release?

Yes.

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

Possibly.  As noted in the JEP, however, Pack200 is a complex and
elaborate technology that’s tightly coupled to the class-file format
and the JAR-file format, both of which continue to evolve.  This isn’t
a reasonably-separable component that can be maintained more or less
at its own pace.  If one or more non-Oracle contributors were to step
up to maintain Pack200 then they’d need to commit to staying on top of
it and participating in most every six-month feature release.

- Mark