> On Jan 25, 2019, at 6:26 AM, Branko Čibej <br...@apache.org> wrote: > > On 25.01.2019 12:20, Mark Phippard wrote: >>> AFAIK it does install from a bottle, but --with-javahl forces a build >>> from source (all other bindings are bottled). You could request an >>> improvement from the Homebrew folks, they're moderately responsive. >> >> Apparently JavaHL has now been removed from the package: >> >> https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/36217 >> >> I have not submitted a PR to them before. Would you be willing to put >> one together that adds the JavaHL library back to the build without >> the option? If you do not have time, I will take a crack later today. >> >> I do not see any reason that JavaHL could not just be part of the >> package. There is nothing especially difficult about distributing it. > > Java is not installed by default on macOS.
Yes, but so what? All this option would do is add the .dylib and JAR to the bottle and spit out a message telling you to create a symlink if you want to use it. None of this would matter if you do not use Java. It is just a library. It actually seems easier than is the case for the Python and Ruby bindings. Mark
