Example change from ShellWax to not bother with pack200 for those using
Tycho can be seen at
https://github.com/eclipse/shellwax/commit/b8b9f072493533ac385d373d5cc97e706b5f1e56

On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 12:18 PM Aleksandar Kurtakov <akurt...@redhat.com>
wrote:

> Hey everyone,
> Due to pack200 being no-op since Eclipse 4.16 when run on Java 14+ (as the
> JVM removed the needed underlying tools) Eclipse TLP is planning the
> following changes:
> * 2021-09 release - no pack200 artifacts being generated and published
> * 2022-06 release - p2 APIs will ignore everything pack200 and not deal
> with pack200 at all
> * 2023-06 release - p2 pack200 specific APIs will be entirely removed
>
> It's documented in the recommendations [1] and removals[2] documentation
> for upcoming 2021-06 release.
> We strongly advise projects to stop generating and publishing pack.gz
> files even for the 2021-06 release.
>
> [1]
> https://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.common.git/commit/?id=9af465b47297dcb0d9ab62faa06feb675b1d45d9
> [2]
> https://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.common.git/commit/?id=a4627c2be04b5d0ce3951ee1fece6c316e84ddbd
>
> --
> Aleksandar Kurtakov
> Red Hat Eclipse Team
>


-- 
Aleksandar Kurtakov
Red Hat Eclipse Team
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