I forgot to mention something here, which makes it a bit more of a nuanced
decision. The default repos from Ubuntu are set up such that:
OpenJDK 7 = 14.04 (Trusty)
OpenJDK 8 = 16.04 (Xenial)
All of the “get 7 on 16.04” and “get 8 on 14.04” I’ve seen have not
been… appealing. (“Figure out which deb you need, then…” or “add the trusty
repos temporarily” or … yeah. Not good.)
So if we want to stick with 7, then that means sticking with Trusty.
> On May 31, 2017, at 1:06 PM, Sean Busbey <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I'd love a 0.5.0 release, FWIW.
>
> Would pulling down openjdk 7 artifacts go more reliably? That would
> presumably be a bit less disruptive than also jumping to jdk8.
>
> (for clarity, I don't think this is too aggressive, since the default
> is just an exemplar and folks could always roll their own.)
>
> On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 1:39 PM, Allen Wittenauer
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> It looks like our default Docker image that we ship with Yetus is
>> failing to build because it can’t download stuff from Oracle. Given that we
>> probably should do at least something to fix it :), I thought it might be
>> time to actually just upgrade the image completely. I’ve filed YETUS-512
>> which does the following:
>>
>> * Switches the base OS to Ubuntu Xenial 16.04
>> * Removes all of the Oracle JDK bits
>> * Switches the JDK to OpenJDK 8 (Headless)
>> * Removes a bunch of hacks that are no longer necessary
>>
>> As a result, this one builds significantly faster and is a tad bit
>> smaller. If we think that’s too aggressive, then the alternative is to just
>> remove the Oracle JDK7 bits from the current image. Either way, we’re
>> looking at an incompatible/disruptive change.
>>
>> Sidenote: I’m currently trying to go through all of the 0.5.0 open
>> issues. My goal is to work towards a release relatively soon, but no
>> promises. Haven’t decided yet whether I’m going to tackle some of the
>> bigger issues yet.
>>
>> Thanks.
