Feature request: automatic JDK builds & build status badge for each platform

Ty Young youngty1997 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 2 06:12:51 UTC 2020


On 6/1/20 10:28 PM, Joe Darcy wrote:
> We have an Oracle-internal CI system for JDK builds and have thought 
> it would be useful to publish some information from that system 
> externally in a way that can be associated with changesets.


Thanks for the reply!


Sounds great. Are you at all considering public automatic builds too?


>
> -Joe
>
> On 6/1/2020 9:31 AM, Ty Young wrote:
>> Anything on this? Could it be done?
>>
>>
>> On 5/29/20 10:46 AM, Ty Young wrote:
>>> (Apologies if this isn't within the scope of Skara or has been 
>>> discussed before. Please don't shoot me if either are true.)
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>> I frequently compile-from-source and use Project Panama's 
>>> Foreign-Memory-Access(FMA) builds from Github[1]. While this works, 
>>> it requires a lot of processing power, memory, and time to do and 
>>> JDK builds sometimes fail to build or have JVM bugs that result in 
>>> unexpected crashes. It is also fairly common in places such as the 
>>> U.S. to have data caps that can easily be eaten up by downloading 
>>> JDK source code that doesn't even compile.
>>>
>>>
>>> So, I'm wondering if automatic JDK builds and a checkmark badge for 
>>> each and every JDK platform could be added to resolve these issues. 
>>> I know it's a bit of a tall order, but doing so would really help 
>>> people like myself who frequently use in-development JDK features. 
>>> Perhaps it could help increase the amount of people playing around 
>>> with these in-development features as well since the bar to enter 
>>> will be lowered.
>>>
>>>
>>> Presumably these builds are already being built somewhere and go 
>>> through testing, but if not or if making them public isn't an 
>>> option, perhaps using Github's "Actions" feature would suffice for 
>>> building? Just an idea.
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] https://github.com/openjdk/panama-foreign
>>>


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