<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">> I assume this would put a tax on everyone, the testing in GHA is already <br>
> a bit noisy. Seems like it would be better to remove the port</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>I can understand that, however we should bear in mind that with JDK<=17 being supported regardless, if it gets removed in a later version there is almost certainly a much higher risk of backports "breaking" the LTS streams (as it did recently) compared to other platforms without it being caught prior to integration, so it might be good to catch it earlier in the backport cycle (or maybe as a middle ground just add such checks to JDK<=17) regardless of whether it gets removed in >=21.</div><div dir="ltr"><br><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Stewart...</div><div>--</div><div><br></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 6 Dec 2023 at 11:54, Alan Bateman <<a href="mailto:Alan.Bateman@oracle.com">Alan.Bateman@oracle.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 06/12/2023 10:22, Stewart Addison wrote:<br>
> Hi Magnus,<br>
><br>
> I put in a fix for another Win32 build break recently but hadn't <br>
> realised it was broken again - ref <br>
> <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8319958" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8319958</a>. Since the Win32 port is <br>
> currently only deprecated I was already wondering if we should go for <br>
> the simple solution of having some github PR checks added for Win32 <br>
> along with the other platforms (Obviously it would need the parameter <br>
> to enable deprecated ports) as I feel this would help prevent things <br>
> being merged and subsequently backported that break things.<br>
<br>
I assume this would put a tax on everyone, the testing in GHA is already <br>
a bit noisy. Seems like it would be better to remove the port, I think <br>
it would be useful to hear from George Adams and Bruno Borges to know if <br>
they plan to follow-up JEP 449 and do the next step.<br>
<br>
-Alan<br>
<br>
</blockquote></div></div>