[rb-general] Reproducible Java builds with Maven

[Hervé Boutemy]

this seems feasible for a Linux distribution, but my principal use case is 
Maven Central, where we don't really have one common build environment.

I suppose we'll have to check with experience how "exact same" we need... :)

Regards,

Hervé

Le lundi 26 novembre 2018, 19:15:52 CET Holger Levsen a écrit :
> Hi Hervé,
> 
> thank you for starting this discussion here!
> 
> I'll only reply to one aspect which I haven't seen anyone replying to:
> 
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 09:08:22AM +0100, Hervé Boutemy wrote:
> > And one thing that worries me is the variability introduced by the JDK
> > version used: this one is quite generic to Java, I don't know if there is
> > currently a global strategy that we could reuse.
> 
> you might be forced to rebuild with the exact same JDK version that was
> used in the build to be reproduced. this is the same as with gcc,
> python, foo or bar.