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

[Martijn Verburg]

Hi all,

We've asked our Solaris user community if any of them are willing to step
up and maintain the port.  The illumos folks have indicated they may wish
to start an alternative port but no takers on the solaris port as of yet.

We'll work with the illumos folks to help them submit a full port project
for review once they've worked through the commitment levels etc it will
take.

Cheers,
Martijn


On Mon, 30 Sep 2019 at 11:28, Baesken, Matthias <matthias.baesken at sap.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>   looks like AdoptOpenJDK  stopped to provide Solaris  (Sparc + x86)
>  builds of OpenJDK a while ago for JDK11 or higher , see :
>
> https://adoptopenjdk.net/releases.html?variant=openjdk11&jvmVariant=hotspot
>
> It might be interesting to hear  from them about user questions /
> reactions on this .
>
> I would like  to see   Solaris/Sparc  still supported in OpenJDK until  at
> least  next LTS / JDK17 ,  but without  knowing more  about  number of
> users / usage
>   It is hard to give good arguments .
>
> Best regards, Matthias
>
>
>
> >
> > On 28/09/2019 11:02, Peter Firmstone wrote:
> > > Crazy idea, builds should be tested on as many architectures as
> possible
> > > for debugging.  I hope this gets downvoted.
> >
> > That seems to me to be a very one-sided perspective you are offering and
> > an unwarranted if not extreme conclusion (insanity? really?).
> >
> > Whatever the benefits to this project of being able to run on SPARC (and
> > ignoring, for now, the likelihood that the benefits of maintaining the
> > port are probably better gauged in terms of the value to users) your
> > conclusion ignores the cost of maintaining the port, not just the
> > maintenance outlay itself but the consequent lost opportunity cost. I
> > think a more thoughtful and balanced judgement is needed here.
> >
> > > I've actually solved a lot of Java concurrency bugs using Solaris Sparc
> > > I couldn't with other architectures.   That means without it, we would
> > > still be trying to solve those bugs.
> >
> > I'd be interested to hear why those concurrency bugs do not (or  even
> > cannot) manifest on Intel or AArch64, particularly the latter.
> >
> > > I don't know why Oracle doesn't release a developer workstation, with
> > > affordable developer licensing, so we can continue using Solaris for
> > > this purpose.   There are just so many tools on Solaris develpers can
> > > utilise.
> > >
> > > Oracle really should start up the OpenSolaris project again too.
> > Arguments about what Oracle should or should not do with Solaris and
> > SPARC hardware are not appropriate for this thread, indeed not even for
> > this list or project. Please keep your comments on topic.
> >
> > regards,
> >
> >
> > Andrew Dinn
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