Thanks for sharing this Matt - it's on my stack to look at. We should really upgrade our Java runtime for actions.
-r On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 1:43 AM Matt Welke <mattwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > I posted this on Slack. Figured it'd be nice to copy it in here too: > > > Hey I just realized I forgot to share this here before: > https://github.com/ow-extended-runtimes/java-17 > > > > *comment from rr* > > > > You might remember that around June I proposed a new API for the Java > runtime to enable us to move from Java 8 to Java 11. We ended up deciding > it would be good to wait until we can do all runtimes so that they don't > get inconsistent. > > I ended up getting busy and I thought that was too ambitious so I didn't > return to the issue on the mailing list. No one else has yet either. But > maybe doing just the Java runtimes (and accepting that they'd be different > from the other language runtimes) would be okay. If so, I'm happy to > contribute. In the meantime, I figured I'd just make it an unofficial thing > for my own use, but shared in public. > > I'm also not using the action loop intentionally because I don't think it > adds any performance and I think it makes things more complex for each > runtime than they need to be. For example, because there's no action loop > here, I don't need to worry about Python being part of the build process or > having a complex hierarchy of container images. It's just a Java image. > We'd want to talk about whether actionloop would be used if I contributed > this. > > Matt >
