Re: Packaging applications with JVM version restrictions
Hi Gregor,
>From what I've seen of the java-wrappers package, it seems to solve the problem
in a single direction: specifying the minimum JVM's version, but not the maximum.
That was one of the remark of Thorsten to me.
The more I think about it, the more I think it is not a problem which should
be solved by Debian. Nor by Fedora, Nor by Homebrew, ...
I'd like to have a solution that is common for all systems/platform to ease the
packaging of java applications.
So I started a prototype of a program that would choose a JVM based on criteria
like the minimum/maximum java specification version, the vendor of the JVM, the
capabilities of the JVM (java, javac, javap, native-image, ...)
It would consist of two steps:
- JVMs discovery
- JVM selection
I would typically expect the paths/environment variables to use for the discovery
to be OS/package managers specific.
For Debian, it could be /usr/bin/java, /usr/lib/jvm, $JAVA_HOME.
Rules could be specified at system level to say for example: use a JVM in the [11, 17] range.
Those rules could be overridden on a per program basis.
Here is the prototype: https://github.com/loicrouchon/jvm-finder/tree/main#readme
It's written in Go so that the JVM selection is quite fast. I'm more of a
Java developer, so probably not great Go, but I'll improve it over time.
I do not expect any of you to help me with the implementation, but feel free ;)
However, I would love you to contribute to the requirements of such a program.
Because I have the point of view of someone wanting to distribute a Java program.
But I lack the point of view of distributions/packages maintainers
PS: I'll be at Devoxx UK next week and will try to discuss of this topic
with other Java developers.
Regards,
------- Original Message -------
On Thursday, April 20th, 2023 at 19:29, gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org> wrote:
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> On Wed, 19 Apr 2023 09:48:54 +0000, Loïc Rouchon wrote:
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> > Debian would need to provide a way to perform the "JRE with exact java $version exists"
> > check. This could be done by providing stable symlinks, or alternatives like
> > /etc/alternatives/jre_<VERSION>
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>
> (I haven't read the complete thread in detail, so this might be not
> completely appropriate):
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> There's also the java-wrappers package which helps to find java
> runtimes from shell wrapper scripts.
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>
> Cheers,
> gregor
>
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