Peter, What do you mean by "we might have some more luck if we have a couple of volunteers"? Is this about the lack of replies on jdk-dev or have you been told so in a private thread?
Cheers, Mikaël Barbero Team Lead - Release Engineering | Eclipse Foundation 📱 (+33) 642 028 039 | 🐦 @mikbarbero Eclipse Foundation <http://www.eclipse.org/>: The Platform for Open Innovation and Collaboration > Le 30 juin 2018 à 13:36, Peter Firmstone <[email protected]> a > écrit : > > That's ok, we might have some more luck if we have a couple of volunteers, > even if the other was not able to put much time in, strength in numbers so to > speak. > > Cheers, > > Peter. > > On 29/06/2018 6:38 PM, Mikaël Barbero wrote: >> Thanks Peter for you reply on the JDK mailing list >> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2018-June/001510.html >> >> Cheers, >> >>> Le 29 juin 2018 à 08:59, Peter Firmstone <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> a écrit : >>> >>> Hi Mikaël, >>> >>> I must have been a little tired when I read this the first time. I didn't >>> realise there was an OpenJDK Java implementation of Pack200. >>> >>> I agree, deprecate the C++ implementation and maintain the standard and >>> java implementation. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Peter. >>> >>> On 29/06/2018 8:34 AM, Peter Firmstone wrote: >>>> I've only ever lightly dabbled in C++ and that was a long time ago (15 >>>> years). It's an option if there are C++ capable and willing volunteers. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> Peter. >>>> >>>> On 28/06/2018 9:41 PM, Mikaël Barbero wrote: >>>>> As far as I understand from >>>>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2018-June/001472.html, you >>>>> don't necessarily need to start with Harmony implementation as there >>>>> already is a full (read pack and unpack) Java implementation of pack200. >>>>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/jdk/file/2f2af62dfac7/src/java.base/share/classes/com/sun/java/util/jar/pack >>>>> >>>>> So I guess that one proposal to JEP336 could be: deprecate the c++ native >>>>> implementation (as this is not used anymore for the JRE) but keep the >>>>> spec + Java impl. >>>>> >>>>> Then anyone (Peter?) could sign up to maintain it @ openjdk. >>>>> >>>>> WDYT? >>>>> * >>>>> Mikaël Barbero * >>>>> *Team Lead - Release Engineering | Eclipse Foundation* >>>>> 📱 (+33) 642 028 039 | 🐦 @mikbarbero >>>>> Eclipse Foundation <http://www.eclipse.org/>: The Platform for Open >>>>> Innovation and Collaboration >>>>> >>>>>> Le 28 juin 2018 à 13:26, Peter Firmstone <[email protected] >>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]> >>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> a écrit : >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm not currently a committer, though happy to, if invited. :) >>>>>> >>>>>> To sum up: >>>>>> >>>>>> 1. The Pack200 clean room implementation written in Java, it can >>>>>> compress and decompress java bytecode and pack.gz files, it was a >>>>>> module developed as part of Apache Harmony, AL2 licensed. >>>>>> 2. Oracle owns the Pack200 Standard copyright. >>>>>> https://docs.oracle.com/javase/10/docs/specs/pack-spec.html >>>>>> 3. OpenJDK's Pack200 test compatibility kit, is GPL2 with classpath >>>>>> exception, (I haven't gone down this road yet, but it's ideal for >>>>>> testing compatibility, with some modification for the libraries >>>>>> different api). >>>>>> 4. We won't be implementing any of the Java API's copyrighted by Oracle. >>>>>> >>>>>> Oracle is deprecating the Pack200 standard and its GPL2 licensed >>>>>> implementation. >>>>>> >>>>>> https://docs.oracle.com/javase/10/docs/legal/copyright.html >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>> >>>>>> Peter. >>>>>> >>>>>> On 28/06/2018 8:54 PM, Mickael Istria wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 12:52 PM, Daniel Megert >>>>>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> > @Daniel: would you mind contacting EMO Legal asking them about >>>>>>> this and sharing the answer here? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Peter should do that as he knows better what he's exactly doing >>>>>>> ;-). Also, I will be away next week and fully booked today. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Is Peter a committer on any Eclipse.org <http://Eclipse.org> project? >>>>>>> I'm afraid if he sends the request without backup from a committer, it >>>>>>> will be rejected as "sorry, we only work for Eclipse.org >>>>>>> <http://Eclipse.org> projects, and don't do legal consulting for the >>>>>>> whole wide world". >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> p2-dev mailing list >>>>>>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>>>>>> To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe >>>>>>> from this list, visit >>>>>>> https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/p2-dev >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> p2-dev mailing list >>>>>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>>>>> To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe >>>>>> from this list, visit >>>>>> https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/p2-dev >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> p2-dev mailing list >>>>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>>>> To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe >>>>> from this list, visit >>>>> https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/p2-dev >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> p2-dev mailing list >>>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>>> To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe >>>> from this list, visit >>>> https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/p2-dev >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> p2-dev mailing list >>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe >>> from this list, visit >>> https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/p2-dev >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> p2-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe from >> this list, visit >> https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/p2-dev > > _______________________________________________ > p2-dev mailing list > [email protected] > To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe from > this list, visit > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/p2-dev
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