Talk:Java package guidelines
I'm assuming this includes .war files as well, seeing as they are basically .jar files. Or?
Necklace (talk) 10:17, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
gradle
vs. ./gradlew
Someone just commented on an AUR PKGBUILD that I maintain about Java source upstreams generally prefering for distributions to use bundled gradlew
instead of system-wide gradle
. After looking into it, it seems like gradlew
will download whatever version of gradle
is specified, which seems to me like going against the principle of Modernism, since whatever was specified for gradlew
is likely not the most recent version. Also, using gradlew
will require downloading as part of the makepkg
’ing, so package can’t be built offline. OTOH, Simplicity may lean towards using gradlew
since that is what upstream gives in their README
. Is this something that has been discussed before that I couldn’t find? Is it something that would be worth noting/discussing on this page? —Freso (talk) 23:05, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
Building Java applications from source
The edit by User:Diabonas removed the paragraph that building Java applications isn't necessary if not easy to do so. I agree with that but the article should highlight what he mentioned:
he reason for building from source is not just to apply custom build options, but supply chain security, reproducible builds etc. Applications must always be built from source if at all possible
However the article doesn't mention that, please add. I don't think it it not obvious for many that Java applications should be build from source.