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(cross-platform) Java Version Manager
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Support .tool-version files from asdf-vm #31

Open patrick-mccourt opened 1 year ago

patrick-mccourt commented 1 year ago

https://asdf-vm.com is a popular software version manager that offers version management of many different softwares, java includes. One thing that could help developers collaborate is to support .tool-versions so that each developer doesn't have to maintain their own configs.

.tool-versions at the project level when running jabba use would read java versions from that, and if present, switch in the same way as using .jabbarc files.

.tool-versions in the home directory sets the global version - not sure how jabba would handle that just yet

@martonsz any thoughts on this idea?

martonsz commented 1 year ago

I'm using asdf-vm. But only for my Linux setup and I did not know about the .tool-verions config file. I prefer working in containers when collaborating with different tools. Then I don't need to install all kinds of stuff on my machine and everybody uses the same versions :)

To answer your question. Why not. Jabba could support .tool-versions if we wanted to. We just have to keep up with changes made to this config file in the future.