illumos port

[Peter Tribble]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 10:34 AM Magnus Ihse Bursie <
magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 2020-01-17 19:38, Mikael Vidstedt wrote:
> >
> >> On Jan 17, 2020, at 12:31 AM, Magnus Ihse Bursie <
> magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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.
>

Indeed, that is *exactly* what I'm talking about here.

I'm going to be at FOSDEM next week, if anybody wants to discuss this there.
(Often at the illumos stand in building K.)


> /Magnus
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Mikael
> >
>
>

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