jpackage

Raised as a usability problem by 3 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2022–2026), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with jpackage, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 4 complaints

Jlink and jpackage are so painful to use that the commenter wrote their own sbt plugins2026-01-02
Unclear how to make a simple double-clickable executable; tool produces confusingly named output2023-12-10
Jpackage can generate an endlessly deep directory tree, which even Explorer can't delete2023-11-15
Needs a Windows machine for Windows installers; Mac signing painful each time2022-02-15