+java

[vemonet]

At least OpenJDK ☕️

[mxcl]

refs

• https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/openjdk.rb
• https://devqa.io/brew-install-java/

notes

We don't support casks (people will be welcome to create a pantry to do that, but the base tea will not). But potentially we can extract the files from the .pkg and create a bottle from that. Depends if java makes system changes or not.

[jonchang]

Note that java on macOS aarch64 has historically required a ton of patches to properly build (with tons of fun migrating patches for each new version), so it may not be possible to build "all the versions" without a lot of work. Extracting the files from the .pkg should work as long as we are careful about relocation and rpaths (java does some special stuff here which Homebrew didn't figure out until very recently)

[mxcl]

There's a reason other PMs don't “build all the versions”, certainly going into this I knew it would be a challenge. This may be one of the first to make that painful.

Yet! We'll try all the same!

[tnxz]

can't we have something like sdkman to do all the heavy lifting and tea magic script to wrap around it.

[mxcl]

@tnxz nice. As long as sdkman can give us something we can “bottle” then it's good for our current system.

Failing that we can package sdkman and recommend that (for now, a goal is ofc to pkg everything).

[tnxz]

so there is this github-actions https://github.com/sdkman/sdkman-action for sdkman can't we use it to directly package java somehow.

[mxcl]

I started openJDK #1337

[felipecrs]

I noticed this is already done by #2684

[mxcl]

it depends, is it possible to pkg java properly? We would need a license that allows redistribution and it would need to be pkg'd in a way that can be relocatable.

[felipecrs]

You can consider Eclipse Temurin (tea +adoptium.net/temurin) if you have trouble with the Oracle licenses. It's the most widely vendor-neutral free JDK and JRE distribution AFAIK.

Also, having a single version of Java available doesn't fit any dev env workflow. Would be nice to have automatic new versions for Java and past versions as well, preferably down to Java 8. :P

PS: I'm just saying it would be nice to have, and I know it's easy to say. Maybe someday I'll get my hands dirty on it.

[felipecrs]

What I am most missing from this right now is that only a few versions are available. It would be great to see more versions available, ideally automatic discovery/building like there is for golang, python and node.