Rare project developers

[mc36 <>]

hi,

On 8/16/21 2:13 PM,  wrote:
> Hi Csaba
>
> > On Sun, 15 Aug 2021 05:39:55 +0200, mc36 <> said:
>
> > > hello,
> > > i just noticed that poznan runs the nix version of the rare builds....
> > > checked around and found the following, please correct and rebuild:
> > > - please use the latest greatest available jvm for the built blob... at the 
> > > moment you build with jvm8 whereas the latest stable is jvm16... (if that is 
> > > not yet nix-ized, then
> > > jvm11 should work fine)
>
> > The newest version in this instance of nixpkgs (release 20.09) is 14
> > so I'm going to use that. jvm16 is in nixpkgs 21.05, but I'm not
> > currently planning to migrate.
>
> It appears that there are no JREs for Java 9 and later (I read that
> this is due to the introduction of the "Java Platform Module System"
> in Java 9) and the full JDK is a bit large for a runtime package. But
> Nix provides a way to build a "minimal JRE" from a JDK by specifiying
> the list of modules to include for the application. I started with the
> bare minimum, i.e. only java.base (giving me a nice lean JRE of 44MiB)
> and freertr seems to be fine with just that.  Can you confirm that > this is 
> all I need or are there any other modules I should include?

yess, the base is enough....

regards,
ds


> Regards,
> Alex