Am 18.05.2022 um 16:36 schrieb Vitaly Zaitsev via devel
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On 18/05/2022 11:27, Peter Boy wrote:
> We didn’t lost Eclipse, we switched from RPM to another distribution method. The same
with Netbeans.
No RPMS in Fedora repositories => Fedora lost them.
You neglect the reality.
One alternative installation source is flatpak, that is gaining approval among more and
more Fedora developers, and more and more are switching to it. There may still be initial
difficulties, but this is a clear trend. Meanwhile, this is also an accepted Fedora
repository. Not that I think that's great, but it's the reality.
Another way is to run software as a „black box“ container. If I run CoreOS or Silverblue I
would primarily look in container repositories, not any dnf find …
Or you just download the jar or Linux installation tar from the project. They usually
contain a shell script to invoke the jre and provide a class path. That’s all you need for
a java app.
So Fedora (= Fedora users) can use it as they could for years. There is nothing lost. But
circumstances and the nature of management and maintenance are changing. 20 years ago we
had no virtualization and no containers, no generic package managers as flatpack, snap,
etc. And Java development was much more about using ant and source code libraries instead
of maven and depository dependencies.
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