[Request] Mandrel

[azmankudus]

Package Request

Criteria

For a package to be acceptable in the Java bucket, it should be:

• a runtime environment or software development kit for Java
• a reasonably well-known and widely used developer tool (e.g. if it's a GitHub project, it should have at least 500 stars and 150 forks)
• the latest stable version of the program
• the full version i.e. not a trial version
• a fairly standard install (e.g. uses a version-specific download URL, no elaborate pre/post install scripts)
• downloadable without having to sign in or use user-dependant cookies

Information

Name: Mandrel

Description: Mandrel is a downstream distribution of the GraalVM community edition. Mandrel's main goal is to provide a native-image release specifically to support Quarkus. The aim is to align the native-image capabilities from GraalVM with OpenJDK and Red Hat Enterprise Linux libraries to improve maintainability for native Quarkus applications. Mandrel can best be described as a distribution of a regular OpenJDK with a specially packaged GraalVM Native Image builder (native-image).

Homepage: https://github.com/graalvm/mandrel

Download link(s): https://github.com/graalvm/mandrel/releases/latest

Some indication of popularity/repute: 330 GitHub stars is not bad for specific purpose tool. Native image works with Quarkus specifically.

License: GPL