On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 10:34 AM Magnus Ihse Bursie < magnus.ihse.bur...@oracle.com> wrote:
> > > 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. > Indeed, that is *exactly* what I'm talking about here. I'm going to be at FOSDEM next week, if anybody wants to discuss this there. (Often at the illumos stand in building K.) > /Magnus > > > > Cheers, > > Mikael > > > > -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
