> Am 18.05.2022 um 16:36 schrieb Vitaly Zaitsev via devel 
> <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org>:
> 
> 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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