How to do initial JBang setup without Foojay? #2377
Description
If we want to be independent of Foojay, which has proven to be unreliable, then we need to figure out how to get a download link to the first JDK that needs to be installed if no JDK is available on the user's system.
An alternative service like Java Metadata unfortunately doesn't give us a way to easily filter it's results and extract only a single element.
On Linux/Mac it might still be somewhat doable but on Windows it's will most likely be very difficult.
Solutions?
- Foojay, back in the day, created an endpoint just for that purpose. The person behind Metadata is pretty flexible so might be willing to accept a PR from us that implements something that we can use. (But what exactly? A folder with .url files with os-arch-vendor-version names?)
- The other option might be that we add a folder like that of our own to a github.com/jbangdev/jdk-verions repo of some sort. (We could do it "lazy" and only have a list for temurin/aoj and fall back to foojay if someone asks for a different vendor)