Compact JRE Profiles for Desktop?

[Daniel Zwolenski]

Hi Alan,

Thanks for your response. Contributing to the efforts for support on other platforms is something I am willing to have a crack at.

I have signed the oracle contributors agreement and all that jazz, and I'm totally confident with all things java. The native, low level stuff might be a bit of a learning curve so I guess I'll just take a stab at it and see what happens. Any tips on how best to get started?

Cheers,
Dan



On 13/11/2012, at 9:01 PM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:

> On 13/11/2012 02:00, Daniel Zwolenski wrote:
>> :
>> Is there anywhere good to ask these questions (other than the JFX forum
>> where knowledge about this stuff is limited)?
> There isn't a separate mailing list for the Compact Profiles effort. The changes are expected to be mostly build related so this is why the jdk8/profiles forest was setup to send the hg notifications here.
> 
>> :
>> 
>> 
>> Do you know who, what, where decides whether the profiles will be available
>> for platforms other than linux? Is there anyone I can hit up to make this
>> happen and/or offer whatever contribution I could make to this?
> There's nothing platform specific in the proposal, it's just that we are only adding support to build the profiles on Linux at this time.
> 
> I don't think it would take a huge amount of effort to add support for other building on other platforms and perhaps this is something that you or others would like to contribute?
> 
> -Alan.