typelevel
Additional maintainer(s)
I like to have at least two maintainers on Typelevel projects. This one shouldn't be too burdensome. Volunteers?
As part of https://devenv.sh I added Scala tooling, maybe if you're interested it would be better to maintain it there?
https://github.com/cachix/devenv/pull/60
That's a neat project. There's some nuance in supporting Scala:
- Which JDK does it build with? Most libraries have one answer, most applications have another.
- Is Scala.js supported?
- Is Scala Native supported? What libraries?
- There's a (declining) tradition of Jekyll sites that we support.
We handle all of that through configuration options. Do you see the devenv language support modules as a starting point, or are you looking to keep them as simple booleans?
We now support a number of java versions: https://devenv.sh/reference/options/#languagesjavaenable
Probably scala should just enable java support as well?
Hopefully that answers your question around configuration options.
That answers my question about whether there's more than languages.whatever.enable.
We generally want our sbt to have a specific JDK, and having Scala Native support implies at least two, usually three extra packages. The C support in devenv is gcc, and we need clang.
So I think that's all to say that it could work, but that to keep parity with what's here, the Scala config would need a lot more options.
I'm happy to move over maintenance if we get a list of the options we need for scala :)
@rossabaker I've made changes so that we add clang and languages.scala.enable now enables languages.java.enable where the SDK can be configured.
There should be proper propagation of jre package now: https://github.com/cachix/devenv/pull/309/files