[cross-project-issues-dev] Upcoming pack200 changes on Eclipse Platform

[Aleksandar Kurtakov <akurtako@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey everyone,

Due to pack200 being no-op since Eclipse 4.16 when run on Java 14+ (as the JVM removed the needed underlying tools) Eclipse TLP is planning the following changes:

* 2021-09 release - no pack200 artifacts being generated and published

* 2022-06 release - p2 APIs will ignore everything pack200 and not deal with pack200 at all

* 2023-06 release - p2 pack200 specific APIs will be entirely removed

It's documented in the recommendations [1] and removals[2] documentation for upcoming 2021-06 release.

We strongly advise projects to stop generating and publishing pack.gz files even for the 2021-06 release.

[1] https://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.common.git/commit/?id=9af465b47297dcb0d9ab62faa06feb675b1d45d9

[2] https://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.common.git/commit/?id=a4627c2be04b5d0ce3951ee1fece6c316e84ddbd

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Aleksandar Kurtakov

Red Hat Eclipse Team