Hi all, My name is Marco and I am the project lead of SDKMAN. For those of you who are not familiar with the project, it is a FLOSS SDK management tool which allows you to install and switch seamlessly between multiple versions of the same SDK when using UNIX shells. You can read more about it on our website[1].
I’ve started using Spark myself on a project and was thinking that it would be a very good candidate too be hosted on SDKMAN. This becomes especially apparent when needing to switch between versions of Spark while developing. The reason I’m writing here is because our tool has an API that allows SDK providers to push their own releases to our service. We don’t host the actual binaries, but it merely enables our tool to point to your new release archives and allow for super easy installation. This can be done by either a few simple REST calls as part of your release process or else automated by using our Maven release plugin. Would the Spark dev community be open for something like this? A recent poll on Twitter shows a good appetite for Spark on SDKMAN by our users[2]. Also, we already have many teams pushing to us in this manner including Groovy, Kotlin, Ceylon, OpenJDK, Gradle, SBT to name a few. Having Spark included would be really great. Apologies in advance if this is not the correct forum for release related posts. Many thanks, Marco. [1] http://sdkman.io [2] https://twitter.com/sdkman_/status/907698363877003264
