On 2019-04-13 21:47, Steve Dougherty wrote: > My impulse would be to decide which distros we want to officially > support, and provide packages for them. Perhaps Arch, Debian, and > Ubuntu? Both installers for Linux applications and compiling Java to > native code strike me as odd approaches that go against the grain of > usual software installation, and while I'm not opposed to having them > as options for distros we don't have 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 Chrome 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. > > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On Friday, April 12, 2019 4:31 PM, Arne Babenhauserheide > <arne_...@web.de> 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 >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> Unpolitisch sein >> heißt politisch sein >> ohne es zu merken
What about https://github.com/freenet/debian? With a Debian package you cover all Debian-based distros, including Ubuntu and derivatives, adding CentOS/Fedora you cover most OSes. I'm not taking into account MacOS or Windows. What needs to be done to move it forward? Best regards,
