Sponsoring the addition of freebsd packaging to Java ?

[Michael Osipov]

Am 2021-03-17 um 14:49 schrieb Kurt Jaeger:
> Hi!
>
> What would be needed for the Foundation to sponsor the following project ?
>
> Java 16 added a packaging tool:
>
> Provide the jpackage tool, for packaging self-contained Java applications.
> https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/392
>
> It currently supports:
>
>      Linux: deb and rpm
>      macOS: pkg and dmg
>      Windows: msi and exe
>
> The idea is to create a patch for upstream to also support FreeBSD
> packages.
>

Except for the native launcher in C which invokes libjvm.so, do you see
ahuge benefit compared to appassembler-maven-plugin and
maven-assembly-plugin? The maven-assembly-plugin could be thaught to
produce pkg files for FreeBSD or you use Poudriere to create them.

WDYT?