Carrez: The real problem with Java in Linux distros

Posted Sep 30, 2010 9:15 UTC (Thu) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454)
In reply to: Carrez: The real problem with Java in Linux distros by alankila
Parent article: Carrez: The real problem with Java in Linux distros

>> With the java way a user of 100 java apps will have 100 versions

> But every one of those 100 apps probably works with respect to the
> features that the app developer tested. Nobody else has gone in and
> changed something and screwed it up.

And what happens when the app needs to be updated to add new customer-requested features? It can't because the local fork of Java deps is missing the features that were added in the real upstream version. So everything needs to be re-done.

The Java way does not solve anything it just delays the payback (That's one reason big Java apps cost astronomical prices, and have slow release cycles. The language is nice and should enable cheaper/faster development, but the abysmal release practices add up in multiple ways in the long term)