New candidate JEP: 362: Deprecate the Solaris and SPARC Ports

[Peter Tribble]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 5:56 PM Mikael Vidstedt <mikael.vidstedt at oracle.com>
wrote:

>
> > On Sep 27, 2019, at 7:58 AM, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
> >
> > https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/362
>
> Although a number of people have expressed potential interest, I have not
> yet seen anybody confirm that they are willing to commit to the maintenance
> of the Solaris and/or SPARC ports going forward.
>

As I've said before, the illumos community wish to support an illumos port;
Solaris-like, with the gcc toolchain, but x86 only. That is not the current
Solaris
port, but clearly overlaps with it to an extent.

The question is how to do that - should we target this as a new port, or
somehow
inherit parts of the existing port? And is a project proposal to the
porters group
the appropriate mechanism to get this off the ground?


> With that in mind I’m planning to move forward with this JEP and will work
> on getting the relevant deprecation changes implemented and reviewed,
> possibly proposing this JEP to target JDK 14 if everything is ready in time.
>
> Note that as stated in the JEP this is just deprecating the ports, *not*
> removing them. If a credible maintainer steps up for the Solaris port, the
> SPARC port, or both then the deprecation can be reverted.
>
> Cheers,
> Mikael
>
>

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