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

[Daniel Megert]

Understood.

I tend to agree with your other comment about keeping the spec without 
shipping an implementation and JCK tests.

Dani



From:   mark.reinhold at oracle.com
To:     Daniel Megert <daniel_megert at ch.ibm.com>
Cc:     jdk-dev at openjdk.java.net
Date:   26.06.2018 20:05
Subject:        Re: JEP proposed to target JDK 11: 336: Deprecate the 
Pack200 Tools and API



2018/6/25 8:54:48 -0700, daniel_megert at ch.ibm.com:
> Sorry, didn't see your reply.
> 
>> Is Eclipse willing to sign up to maintain this technology?
> 
> If someone steps up to do so, yes. I think Peter has interest to do so. 
> The question is: is it legally allowed to implement and ship a 
deprecated 
> specification?

That?s a legal question, which I?m not qualified to answer.

- Mark