illumos port

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On 2020-01-17 19:38, Mikael Vidstedt wrote:
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>> On Jan 17, 2020, at 12:31 AM, Magnus Ihse Bursie <magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> But given an initial port to solaris-x86+gcc, I think the continuous burden of support you'll be undertaking is not too hard. In earnest, I think JEP 362 should have better been named "Deprecate Solaris Studio and SPARC", because that's what causing us trouble to keep supporting.
> No. What is deprecated, with the intent to remove, are the Solaris and the SPARC ports as a whole, regardless of the toolchain used to build them.
Yes, I realize that is what the JEP proposes. What I was trying to 
express was the fact that if someone else apart from Oracle steps up to 
keep support, keeping Sparc support would require a heavy investment, 
and having solstudio support on x86 would be quite some work too, but 
supporting gcc on x64 on Solaris (or a Solaris-like OS) -- given an 
initial port -- is probably not a big deal. From the perspective of the 
Oracle JDK developers, this is still not worth the effort, but I believe 
that is a reasonable goal for someone else to have, like the Illumos 
community.

/Magnus
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> Cheers,
> Mikael
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