Re: [che-dev] Java extension is getting bigger

[Thomas Mäder <tmader@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 27/11/2019 04:49, Gorkem Ercan wrote:
> What exactly is the mechanics of the container merging? Is it 
> something that plugin broker does?

My original idea was to merge everything that relies on the same image. 
I don't know if that's a good way. I'm unfamiliar with the code that 
constructs pods out of a devfile and can't really say what's best.

> Do we expect the extension developers to explicitly mark their 
> extensions for container merging?

That really depends on what we want to achieve. If we're after reducing 
the amount of containers we run (to improve sharing resources), we 
should not expect that, if we just want to cover the case of jdt.ls, we 
can require it. But even then, we need to match versions, etc.

/Thomas