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

[Baesken, Matthias]

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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