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Could the Bazel folks better define the composition of their blob? That way they can distribute their blob, but someone could substitute for another instance of

Could the Bazel folks better define the composition of their blob? That way they can distribute their blob, but someone could substitute for another instance of the JVM. I'm assuming ownership of this lies with Bazel and this is more of a political/motivation problem than a technical one. Or, is that incorrect?

hannob 7y ago
Sure, this is not impossible. But there's a simple fact: The more complex your build chain is the more difficult this is. And Java adds a whole bunch of complexity. Read into the bug report to get an idea what a nightmarish task this is: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=782654 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=782654
lima 7y ago
The blob is just the JDK + Bazel + a wrapper binary. Just use their regular build artifacts instead if you want to bring your own JDK.