Hi Brad, ex-Sun here as well, so emotional attachment too :-).
I think we should keep SPARC support for at least one (or more) Apache NetBeans releases. SPARC users deserve it. And who knows, we may have at least one user ;-).
Last March Oracle announced Solaris 11 CBE [1], free for use for open source developers and non-production use. Looking at the license [2] though, it's not clear if we can use it to generate "production ready" binaries for Solaris.
If it were possible then I assume we could ask ASF-Infra to generate one virtual machine for us (it license allows) so we can use it as a "build-bot" for Solaris binaries.
Or, since binaries are rarely changed, we could rebuild binaries for Intel/SPARC in a VirbualBox VM, for instance (cross-compiling for SPARC in Intel).
Kind regards, Antonio [1] https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/announcing-the-first-oracle-solaris-114-cbe [2] https://www.oracle.com/downloads/licenses/solaris-ea-license.html El 12/5/22 a las 1:18, Brad Walker escribió:
I've been having a conversation about removing Solaris SPARC support from the CND (i.e. C/C++) branch. As you might know, there is active work on getting this into the master branch. I started removing support Solaris SPARC and several individuals mentioned that I should ping the development team for comments/feedback/opinions or anything else about this. Here are the relevant details: No more Java support - JEP 381 In 2017, Sun shutdown the SPARC dev. teams and stopped future work on the processor. And here are my comments: "Sun was the first professional co. that I started my career at. I worked on the team that ported SunOS (before Solaris) over to SPARC. It has a deep emotional attachment for me. But, I just can't see anyone using it. It made me sad when OpenJDK officially shut down support for it. It's got a lot of cruft associated with it. So I'm trying to make the code base easier to support. And just so you are aware, I'm expecting to probably be the one supporting it, if it stays around, since I have a working 64bit SPARC machine. Actually several. 8-)" So if you have an opinion on this, I would be really interested in hearing it.. -brad w.
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