New candidate JEP: 336: Deprecate the Pack200 Tools and API (original) (raw)

Peter jini at zeus.net.au
Sat Jun 9 09:05:16 UTC 2018

On 7/06/2018 6:54 AM, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:

http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/336

- Mark

Hmm, a bit dissapointing, I would have liked to see its support continued. Small and compact jar files are still important for distributed systems, although now we tend to maintain local mirror repositories, it's a change we'll have to live with I guess.

How long before it will be removed completely?

We ran tests on Java 9 pre releases, but haven't migrated from Java 8 yet.

Peter.

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