RFR: JEP 367: Remove the Pack200 Tools and API

Vicente Romero vicente.romero at oracle.com
Wed Nov 20 23:31:51 UTC 2019


Hi Martin,

I didn't find any reference to pack200 in the jar man page,

Thanks,
Vicente

On 11/20/19 5:59 PM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> What about the reference to pack200 from the jar man page?
>
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 2:55 PM Vicente Romero 
> <vicente.romero at oracle.com <mailto:vicente.romero at oracle.com>> 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
>



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