Please provide Semeru as a Chocolatey package

[m-schutte-ohra-nl]

Chocolatey [1] is a kind of package manager for windows. It already provides an easy way to install Temurin builds, and I think it could help adoption of Semeru if it was made available too. There are already some builds of old versions available from a third party [2], but I think you are in the best position to provide up to date packages as new Semeru builds become available.

[1] https://chocolatey.org/
[2] https://community.chocolatey.org/packages?q=j9

[AdamBrousseau]

Most of our infrastructure and release code is pulled from the Eclipse Adoptium group. They (Adoptium group) do not maintain their Chocolatey packages but a third party (@johan) provides them. Johan has a code repo we could look at.
https://github.com/johanjanssen/TemurinChocolateyPackages
@johanjanssen would you be interested in providing Chocolatey packages for Semeru Open Edition?
@mstoodle would be good to have in this conversation as well from IBM side.

[johanjanssen]

Thanks for reaching out @AdamBrousseau, I indeed maintain the ones for Temurin and in the past maintained the AdoptOpenJDK OpenJ9 ones as well.

However I personally prefer not to maintain more packages, as I'm busy enough. But it's fairly simply to setup yourself.

Personally I find the setup for the creation of the Temurin packages, which uses au, a bit difficult and it was created by someone else. As an alternative you could have a look at my other packages: https://github.com/johanjanssen/ChocolateyPackages/tree/master/OpenJDK. I don't use au to update them, but some Java code which basically retrieves the latest version from a repo and then replaces the values in the configuration.