On Mon, 2021-12-06 at 10:28 +0100, Robert Munteanu wrote: > Hi Carsten, > > On Sat, 2021-12-04 at 15:06 +0100, Carsten Ziegeler wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm fine with whatever solution we can agree on, however if we > > promote a > > docker based solution we increase the requirements (installed tools) > > to > > be able to run the starter. Now, I guess everyone will now tell me > > that > > everyone else has docker installed anyway but some users might have > > challenges with that. > > Right, questioning whether requiring Docker/Podman/etc really is simple > for our users is a good point. > > I'll try and gather some data around that. There are some developer > surveys floating around (Stackoverflow, ZeroTurnaround, JetBrains), > I'll try and check if they have data on Docker usage for development. > If you have something in particular in mind as a target group, let me > know.
I added some points to [1]. Briefly, besides the 'we probably don't support the latest JVM' argument, it looks like Docker is available to a majority of users. There is no hard data on whether this is more available more than 'the right JVM version'. Thanks, Robert [1]: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SLING/Recommend+mechanism+for+launching+the+feature-model+based+Starter#RecommendmechanismforlaunchingthefeaturemodelbasedStarter-JavavsContainers
