The goals / purpose of "Reproducible Builds" makes sense to me. However I wish the output that is the subject of reproducibility could be the JAR *exclusive* of its MANIFEST.MF. There is some interesting metadata in there -- not essential but a shame to throw away in the name of reproducibility.
~ David Smiley Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 4:27 PM Gus Heck <gus.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > Some discussion on https://github.com/apache/lucene/pull/12096 lead to > the question of whether or not reproducible builds ( > https://reproducible-builds.org/) are something we would like to work > towards. I'm a fan, though unlikely to have time to work on it soon. > > What I can do is monitor this thread and if the consensus seems to be > there, make a ticket that a volunteer can work on in the future (or maybe > me in the far future, likely after I have some more direct experience from > implementing it for Uno-Jar and JesterJ). > > -Gus > > -- > http://www.needhamsoftware.com (work) > http://www.the111shift.com (play) >
