RFR: JEP 367: Remove the Pack200 Tools and API (original) (raw)

David Holmes david.holmes at oracle.com
Wed Nov 20 23:10:27 UTC 2019

Hi Vicente,

Not sure the best mailing list for this review ... jdk-dev may not be well monitored.

Is there a separate review thread for the actual tool removal (jdk.pack) and build system changes?

This removal seems okay, but I found one additional reference:

./src/utils/IdealGraphVisualizer/nbproject/project.properties:auxiliary.org-netbeans-modules-apisupport-installer.pack200-enabled=false

Thanks, David

On 21/11/2019 8:54 am, Vicente Romero wrote:

Hi,

I need a reviewer for the changes to remove pack200 and unpack200 from the JDK. The webrev with the removal is at [1]. This patch is the "implementation" of JEP 367 [2]. The patch is basically removing the Pack200 related APIs plus its implementation plus any reference to it in other tools like jar. In the case of jar, Pack200 was only used if the -n flag was passed to the tool. I have removed the code that was executed when that flag was passed. I have also removed all the tests for Pack200. Thanks, Vicente [1] http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~vromero/8234542/webrev.00/ [2] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8232022

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