That's how WAR files get built. It's a very standard mechanism for deploying Java apps.
I think having Java on your machine is a reasonable requirement. I mean the equivalent in Ruby would be to have Ruby, install all gems and THEN launch the app.
I think having Java on your machine is a reasonable requirement. I mean the equivalent in Ruby would be to have Ruby, install all gems and THEN launch the app.
I know about packaging and running Java web apps. I am pointing out that compare to Gogs, Java based solution has extra requirement of JRE which I have to keep patched and updated. And this is independent of any fix/improvement of Gitbucket itself.
Are you saying if go gets updated, you will not have to rebuild your gogs binary? Go does not provide a better security infrastructure than Java. I grant that just running a binary is cool, but as I said, having Java is OK as far as requirements go IMHO. others may have different opinions.
Atleast its better than installing a ruby app.
It's not zero requirements, though. (Go binaries still need platform-specific libc, AFAIK, but it's usually also a reasonable requirement.)