jpackage Packaging Tool Early Access Update 4

[Michael Hall]

> On Mar 26, 2019, at 11:13 AM, Andy Herrick <andy.herrick at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> --overwrite was removed because our internal reviewers thought that was inconsistent with other tools.
> 
> the problem was that the option required us to fully remove the directory tree <output>/<name>[.app], without regard to what is in it.
> 
> other tools like jlink require a non-existent output path, and developer can easily "rm -rf" the directory before running jpackage.
> 
> /Andy
> 
> 

Yeah ok, I would say having it a CLI option puts the risk on the user. But as you say an easy work around. You do have to sudo for some of the embedded jdk files.

Thanks