Re: [ptxdist] Classpath -- move out from staging?

[Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>]

Hi,

On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 10:34:10AM +0200, Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote:
> El mié, 18 oct 2023 a las 8:00, Michael Olbrich
> (<m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>) escribió:
> > On Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 04:49:12PM +0200, Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote:
> > > I see that the classpath package was moved to staging in commit
> > > f2afdd541d3dc1cbac965ddaf899009780de2aae, with a note stating that it
> > > could not be built with any current (Java) distribution.
> > >
> > > My team and I are still using this actively, and it can be built with
> > > OpenJDK 8 which is still supported and is expected to be be supported
> > > for a while (for example Adoptium states it will be supported "At
> > > least until Nov 2026").
> > >
> > > Can we move this out of staging? If so I will prepare a patch.
> >
> > No. In fakt, I should have removed it entirely some time ago. I just missed
> > it. And I will remove it soon. The problem is, that I cannot even
> > build-test it any more and that's the minimum requirement for having it
> > upstream.
> 
> 
> It should build fine with OpenJDK 8 which is still fully supported and
> widely available.
> Are you having problems with this?
> Can you share the details?

My main test infrastructure runs on Debian. And OpenJDK 8 (and javah, the
tool that is missing) was removed a long time ago.

What's the benefit of having this upstream? You can easily put the package
in your BSP. Is has no special requirements. You seem to be the only user
of this package and without test coverage Upstream there is no benefit in
keeping it here.

Regards,
Michael

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