jpackage: uniform error messages on different platforms

Jon Harper jon.harper87 at gmail.com
Fri May 17 10:16:27 UTC 2019


when things go wrong launching an app packaged with jpackage, the
behavior is different accross platform:
- on windows it show a popup
- on other platforms it logs to stdout

I think it would be better if the behavior was consistent:
- provide popups on other platforms when the program is launched from
a file explorer
- provide messages on the console on windows when there is one.

Maybe all this can be autodetected, or maybe it should there should be
a global --console (like --winconsole today) that cotnrols how the
error messages are displayed ?

Cheers,
Jon


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