[rb-general] [JVM/Scala] Progress report: promising but not quite there yet

[Holger Levsen]

Hi Arnout,

On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 01:20:21PM +0200, Arnout Engelen wrote:
> I just wanted to share some promising progress around Reproducible
> Builds for Scala libraries (on the JVM).
> 
> Recently the first non-trivial Scala library was released with my
> sbt-reproducible-builds plugin enabled during the build (Akka 2.5.22).
> I can successfully independently reproduce most of the artifacts built
> with Scala 2.13.0-M5 (results at
> https://arnout.engelen.eu/rb/akka/2.13.0-M5/2.5.22/). The remaining
> inconsistencies are all due to an issue in the Scala compiler that has
> already been fixed for Scala 2.13.0-RC1
> (https://github.com/scala/scala/pull/7429).
> 
> The original release was performed on a Mac, and I could successfully
> verify it (modulo the known issue) on my Debian machine - so the build
> seems reproducible across pretty diverse systems.

that's great news, thank you for sharing this here!


-- 
tschau,
	Holger

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