RFR: JEP 367: Remove the Pack200 Tools and API

[Vicente Romero]

Hi David,

This is the list that appears in the `Discussion` tag in the JEP [1]. I 
will remove that reference,

Thanks,
Vicente

[1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8232022

On 11/20/19 6:10 PM, David Holmes wrote:
> Hi Vicente,
>
> Not sure the best mailing list for this review ... jdk-dev may not be 
> well monitored.
>
> Is there a separate review thread for the actual tool removal 
> (jdk.pack) and build system changes?
>
> This removal seems okay, but I found one additional reference:
>
> ./src/utils/IdealGraphVisualizer/nbproject/project.properties:auxiliary.org-netbeans-modules-apisupport-installer.pack200-enabled=false 
>
>
> Thanks,
> David
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>
> On 21/11/2019 8:54 am, Vicente Romero wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I need a reviewer for the changes to remove pack200 and unpack200 
>> from the JDK. The webrev with the removal is at [1]. This patch is 
>> the "implementation" of JEP 367 [2]. The patch is basically removing 
>> the Pack200 related APIs plus its implementation plus any reference 
>> to it in other tools like `jar`. In the case of `jar`, Pack200 was 
>> only used if the `-n` flag was passed to the tool. I have removed the 
>> code that was executed when that flag was passed. I have also removed 
>> all the tests for Pack200.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Vicente
>>
>> [1] http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~vromero/8234542/webrev.00/
>> [2] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8232022