New candidate JEP: 335: Deprecate the Nashorn JavaScript Engine

[mark.reinhold at oracle.com]

2018/6/15 4:40:47 -0700, Attila Szegedi <szegedia at gmail.com>:
> On 2018. Jun 12., at 16:55, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
>> 
>> […]
>> If a set of credible developers expresses a clear desire to maintain
>> Nashorn after JDK 11 then all of us who work on this code base will find
>> a way to make that happen.  Maybe Nashorn stays in the JDK, or maybe it’s
>> removed from the JDK and maintained in some other OpenJDK Project and
>> published to Maven Central, or maybe some completely different approach
>> is taken.  Exactly what happens depends, mostly, on who shows up.
>> 
>> So ... any takers?
> 
> I have expressed previously that I am willing to keep maintaining
> Dynalink, and that I believe it needs to stay in the JDK in order to
> be effective. John Rose seemed to agree in an earlier reply in this
> thread.

As the creator of Dynalink you’re obviously qualified to take this on,
so thanks for volunteering!  I agree that much of Dynalink’s value rests
in its continued availability in the JDK.

Jim -- what do you think?

> It’d be great if we could conceptually unbundle Dynalink from Nashorn
> for the purpose of this discussion. (For historical reasons, its
> source code is colocated with Nashorn's, but it can be easily moved
> elsewhere and there’s no technical reason for keeping it there.)

As Alan noted, Dynalink is already in its own module, so this isn’t an
issue.

- Mark