Re: Linux installer as jar?

My impulse would be to decide which distros we want to officially support, =
and provide packages for them. Perhaps Arch, Debian, and Ubuntu? Both insta=
llers for Linux applications and compiling Java to native code strike me as=
 odd approaches that go against the grain of usual software installation, a=
nd while I'm not opposed to having them as options for distros we don't hav=
e packages for, it does seem liable to increase our support load.

Providing packages would allow giving upgrades some nice properties as well=
 - instead of having to write upgrade logic ourselves, the package manager =
can do it. We need only (expose and) add a package repo like the Google Chr=
ome package does by default. A tool to mirror a USK to disk would be useful=
 here; if memory serves I've written up ideas about this in the past.


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On Friday, April 12, 2019 4:31 PM, Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab-S0/[email protected]> =
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> With Java 11 Webstart is no longer part of the official
> distribution. JNLP files no longer start by default.
>
> What do you think about just providing the jar?
>
> Or should we try whether we can get the installer compiled with Graal?
> https://www.graalvm.org/docs/getting-started/#native-images
>
> Best wishes,
> Arne
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