Hi Marco, I've invited you to a discussion with some of the 3rd party vendors (as Dalibor has suggested).
Cheers, Martijn On 28 January 2017 at 13:36, Marco Vermeulen <vermeulen...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi there, > > My name is Marco Vermeulen, and I'm the maintainer of SDKMAN!, an SDK > download and management tool. For those not familiar with the SDKMAN! > project, it is FLOSS tool which helps developers install and manage JVM > related SDKs conveniently on their development environments. We don't host > any binaries, we merely act as a broker on behalf of the user and help > manage their local path variables. It's sole purpose is to make developers' > lives easy! For more details, you can read up on what we do at our website > [1]. > > Recently, we introduced the ability to install platform specific binaries, > which finally opened the door for installing Java SDKs. Unfortunately, this > means that we are pointing to the Oracle JDK binaries since Oracle are the > only vendor providing single packaged JDKs for all mainstream platforms. > > I would like to propose an initiative to start providing official OpenJDK > binary packages for the most used platforms across a version range (say 5.0 > thru 9ea). I would suggest pre-packaged binaries for Linux, MacOSX, > Cygwin/Windows and FreeBSD. Currently, most developers use Oracle JDKs > because OpenJDK simply isn't available for their platform. This is very > sad, as we are missing a great opportunity in helping the adoption of the > OpenJDK! > > It would probably require the JDKs to be packaged as zips and tarballs, > along with appropriate MD5 or SHA256 hashes for security purposes. I would > suggest publishing these binaries on a free platform such as BinTray. > > On the tail of this I would love to see an automated publish of these > binaries to SDKMAN!, allowing users to easily install the JDKs with minimum > friction. The Groovy [2], Kotlin [3] and Ceylon [4] communities (amongst > many others) are already doing this, and it helps them greatly in > distributing their binaries. > > If needed, I am willing to get involved with this initiative myself, > realising that much work would need to be done in order to automate such a > pipeline for building, packaging and publishing the OpenJDK. > > I hope this sounds appealing to others, and we can get this happening > sometime in the near future! > > Cheers, > Marco. > > [1] http://sdkman.io > [2] http://groovy-lang.org/download.html#sdkman > [3] https://kotlinlang.org/docs/tutorials/command-line.html > [4] https://ceylon-lang.org/download/ > > > >
