Remove platforms not supporting AARCH64?

[Marcus Hirt]

Hi all (especially vendors),

 

I'd like to remove the old platforms (not supporting AARCH64). This would
unfortunately mean an exception to our usual support for (at least) the last 4
Eclipse releases. The old platforms, however, are not really properly
supported today anyways, as you'd need to manually remove the AARCH64
environment from the main pom to make them build. The simplest would simply be
to remove the platform definitions for <= 2021-03, meaning we'd support
2021-06, 2021-09 and 2021-12, with 2022-03 being a little bit over a month
away. 

What do you think? Just remove them? Is there any vendor relying on 2021-03
(or earlier) being available?


See: [JMC-7477] JMC8.2 does not build with eclipse 4.19 (21-03) - Java Bug
System <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JMC-7477> 



Kind regards,

Marcus