LibreOffice Is Now One Of The First Major Linux Desktop Apps With A Flatpak

[droidhacker]

The only part of this that actually interests me, is the part about NO JRE.
"The LibreOffice.flatpak does not include a Java Runtime Environment (JRE). That means that some LibreOffice functionality that requires a JRE will not work."

Cool, what is that functionality? And who is working on fixing it so that JRE can be deprecated altogether?

[RahulSundaram]

The only part of this that actually interests me, is the part about NO JRE.
"The LibreOffice.flatpak does not include a Java Runtime Environment (JRE). That means that some LibreOffice functionality that requires a JRE will not work."

Cool, what is that functionality? And who is working on fixing it so that JRE can be deprecated altogether?

Easy enough to find out with a quick search

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Java

[droidhacker]

Easy enough to find out with a quick search

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Java

Its a useful link (thank you).

Looks like its mainly tests, android, and hsqldb.
tests and android are, of course, reasonable use of Java. Leaves hsqldb, which might leave a few people in a pinch if they have legacy base projects.

[dweigert]

Unless someone decides to write a conversion utility (No, I'm not volunteering for that effort) to export the DB from that format, and moves it into a more desirable one.