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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