jpackage: support for environment variables in --java-options

[Scott Palmer]

> On Sep 3, 2020, at 4:26 AM, Michael Hall <mik3hall at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sep 2, 2020, at 10:07 PM, Scott Palmer <swpalmer at gmail.com <mailto:swpalmer at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> There is already a way to supply a custom Info.plist.  
>> That can have the LSEnvironment entries you want.
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>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8233175 <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8233175>
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>> I was under the impression that we were after something that would allow different values to get to the application based on environment variables.  The env var values can’t be hard-coded in the Info.plist to do that, we want values that are expanded based on set environment variables on the user’s machine.  Isn’t that what this is about?
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>> Scott
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> Yes for Serban’s thread. Which was already shown not to work OS X on the users machine because user environment variables aren’t passed to applications.

As I mentioned earlier, launchctl must be used to set environment variables that you want passed to GUI applications.

Scott