On 30.11.2017 15:08, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
If there is no hurry to remove javah I suggest waiting until JDK 12 to do so, this would increase our chances to include JDK 11 in the next Debian release.
I don't think that hurry is necessarily a factor here, given that javah would have been deprecated for about 4 years prior to its potential removal in JDK 10. Waiting to remove it until JDK 12 would make that 5 years of deprecation instead of 4.
If developers of an open source project have ignored a javah removal warning message for four years, I assume that they might just as well ignore it for five years, too, ultimately leaving downstream packagers in the same situation.
Instead, what I think would be really useful, if you'd like to make a case for a delay of this particular change, would be to find out the kind of cases where moving projects to use javac -h instead isn't feasible for some reason or other. Those cases would then be good items to discuss on the jdk-dev list.
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