Producing community binaries for OpenJDK

[Mario Torre]

2017-03-13 10:38 GMT+01:00 dalibor topic <dalibor.topic at oracle.com>:
>
> Sure - I am still curious what the specific technical differences are
> between what you're planning to do and what's been done before with IcedTea.
> I assume some kind of 'learning from past' or differential analysis has been
> done by someone before the idea was shared more broadly, so it would be
> interesting to see it shared with this list.

I'm curious too.

>From what I can say, IcedTea produces a common infrastructure for
downstream Linux distributions to do their own packaging. I'm not sure
how well would do in moving this work, and I mean the actual builds,
upstream though, since each build is very specific to the various
Linux distributions and it's simply impossible to take care of all of
them, this is a task better fit to downstream instead.

I would be more akin to have community builds on one or two default
target to replace the Oracle EA builds for OpenJDK, just because the
license of those builds is sub-optimal, but the amount of work needed
for that maybe be overkill for the relative little benefit they would
provide, and probably the reason why nobody has done that before.

Of course, Windows and Mac builds are slightly different topic, since
those are less variable environment (just in the sense there's just
one vendor, so relatively less differences to account for). But even
here, we do a number of community projects already that can be
contributed to instead.

There are indeed a number of architectures that are not covered
officially with builds, but I'm not sure if providing a binary for
those is worth a project, for architectures that need specific
configurations and changes you can either decide for a full port, or
contribute to the build project as a whole, and, for more exoteric
builds, just contribute to IcedTea or create your own downstream,
since again, I'm not sure this belongs to OpenJDK, but perhaps I'm
misunderstanding the original idea?

Cheers,
Mario

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