On Sat, 11 Sep 2021, 21:43 Scott Palmer, <[email protected]> wrote: > What were the problems with using jpackage? It seems like it would be > fairly simple to take an App > Image and JRE image and do this for you. >
JPackage is great, but basically does too much. We have our own launchers, so we don't need that feature. Experiments I did I had a simple jar library launching the IDE in a child process, which worked but not ideal. Might be other ways. We have use cases where we might not want the bundled JDK runtime. We might want other packaging types. Neither of the ones implemented so far are in JPackage currently. There were a few other curious quirks, such as not being able to keep the IDE jars off the classpath, a problem with spaces in file names, etc. All in all, this seemed to me a better approach to try. Best wishes, Neil
