I think it¡¯s worthwhile to at least see how hard it would be to set this up. IIRC, there was a previous discussion about it a year or two ago, but we never really established what it would take to actually do it.
If this can be made to work, and if we could _fully_ automate the creation of it, then adding it as an experimental alternate distribution might be worth the experiment.
I have already started to see if it's technically feasible. For what I
have tested, JMRI run well with OpenJDK 11 java runtime. And Flathub
provide an extension to the Freedesktop sdk that contain the OpenJDK 11
Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and Java Developement Kit (JDK):
This repository README also provide an example of Flatpak manifest to
package a Java app.
I can help on this. But I'm not a Java expert.
Thank you. I don¡¯t know anything much about this, but I can help from the JMRI end.
Bob
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