From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Delivery-date: Fri, 20 Oct 2023 10:06:57 +0200 Received: from metis.whiteo.stw.pengutronix.de ([2a0a:edc0:2:b01:1d::104]) by lore.white.stw.pengutronix.de with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1qtkX3-00FIGT-EE for lore@lore.pengutronix.de; Fri, 20 Oct 2023 10:06:57 +0200 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=metis.whiteo.stw.pengutronix.de) by metis.whiteo.stw.pengutronix.de with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qtkX2-0007Jl-Mu; Fri, 20 Oct 2023 10:06:56 +0200 Received: from drehscheibe.grey.stw.pengutronix.de ([2a0a:edc0:0:c01:1d::a2]) by metis.whiteo.stw.pengutronix.de with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qtkWt-0007Ie-H3; Fri, 20 Oct 2023 10:06:47 +0200 Received: from [2a0a:edc0:2:b01:1d::c5] (helo=pty.whiteo.stw.pengutronix.de) by drehscheibe.grey.stw.pengutronix.de with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1qtkWs-002ya2-Sd; Fri, 20 Oct 2023 10:06:46 +0200 Received: from mol by pty.whiteo.stw.pengutronix.de with local (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1qtkWs-001g4i-Jg; Fri, 20 Oct 2023 10:06:46 +0200 Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2023 10:06:46 +0200 From: Michael Olbrich To: Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia Message-ID: Mail-Followup-To: Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia , ptxdist@pengutronix.de References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: X-Sent-From: Pengutronix Hildesheim X-URL: http://www.pengutronix.de/ X-Accept-Language: de,en X-Accept-Content-Type: text/plain Subject: Re: [ptxdist] Classpath -- move out from staging? X-BeenThere: ptxdist@pengutronix.de X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: PTXdist Development Mailing List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de Cc: ptxdist@pengutronix.de Sender: "ptxdist" X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ptxdist-bounces@pengutronix.de X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on metis.whiteo.stw.pengutronix.de); SAEximRunCond expanded to false 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 > () 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 -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Steuerwalder Str. 21 | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 |