On 11/03/17 11:08, Alan Bateman wrote: > On 11/03/2017 07:59, Andrew Haley wrote: > >> : >> Wow. I totally agree with the sentiment, but it's a bit late in the >> JDK 9 timeframe to be talking about this. Has this been discussed >> internally within Oracle for some time? > For years, long before SUNW was finalized :-)
Oh, absolutely, I know about that. I was just wondering why now, and is this something you just came up with, and are we going to have the compatibility discussion? I have no problem with the deprecation, BTW. It's what happens next that is more problematic. Andrew.
