[icedtea-web] RFC: remove default.jnlp

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 16:55 Mon 24 Jan     , Omair Majid wrote:
> On 01/24/2011 04:25 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> > On 15:58 Mon 24 Jan     , Omair Majid wrote:
> >> The attached patch removes default.jnlp from icedtea-web. This seems to
> >> be a copy of about.jnlp (About.jnlp gets invoked on javaws -about), but
> >> is completely unused. Ok to remove?
> >>
> >
> > Does the name have any special significance?  Have you checked it isn't loaded
> > or something if you don't specify a JNLP file?
> >
> 
> That's what I thought at first. Running javaws with no-args prints out 
> the help message. I grepped the entire source and default.jnlp does not 
> appear anywhere. Digging into it's history, here is what I found: 
> icedtea6 changeset bd6babe8221f [1], which introduced the about.jnlp 
> file, also changed the uses of default.jnlp to about.jnlp (the relevant 
> changes are in rt/net/sourceforge/jnlp/runtime/Boot.java). The changeset 
> should also have deleted default.jnlp.
> 

Ok, great, we can delete it then.

> > On the subject of about.jnlp, can someone please update it so recent work is credited?
> > It currently gives all credit to Jon Maxwell and Joshua Sumali.
> >
> 
> I can take a look at it. Updating the in-repository copy should not be 
> too hard, but about.jnlp is actually run from the classpath servers, and 
> I do not have permission to edit icedtea.classpath.org:/var/www/netx.
> 

It seems I do, so I can update the server copy once the fix is in IcedTea-Web.

> Cheers,
> Omair
> 
> [1] http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6/rev/bd6babe8221f

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