On 2020-01-17 19:38, Mikael Vidstedt wrote:
On Jan 17, 2020, at 12:31 AM, Magnus Ihse Bursie
<magnus.ihse.bur...@oracle.com> wrote:
But given an initial port to solaris-x86+gcc, I think the continuous burden of support
you'll be undertaking is not too hard. In earnest, I think JEP 362 should have better
been named "Deprecate Solaris Studio and SPARC", because that's what causing us
trouble to keep supporting.
No. What is deprecated, with the intent to remove, are the Solaris and the
SPARC ports as a whole, regardless of the toolchain used to build them.
Yes, I realize that is what the JEP proposes. What I was trying to
express was the fact that if someone else apart from Oracle steps up to
keep support, keeping Sparc support would require a heavy investment,
and having solstudio support on x86 would be quite some work too, but
supporting gcc on x64 on Solaris (or a Solaris-like OS) -- given an
initial port -- is probably not a big deal. From the perspective of the
Oracle JDK developers, this is still not worth the effort, but I believe
that is a reasonable goal for someone else to have, like the Illumos
community.
/Magnus
Cheers,
Mikael
