Compact JRE Profiles for Desktop?

[David Holmes]

Quick note: the main thing Linux specific is the set of files that 
defines the profile contents - profile-includes.txt (IIRC). It used a 
Linux JRE as the starting point. Once I start looking at how different 
platforms have different files I may need a better higher-level way to 
express platform dependencies (some of it is hidden with things like 
LIB_SUFFIX etc).

Profiles are very simple:
- a reduced set of files in lib and bin
- a reduced set of APIs in rt.jar (and by association resources.jar)

David

On 13/11/2012 8:34 PM, Daniel Zwolenski wrote:
> 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.