IcedTea-Web & Java 11

[Laurent Bourgès]

Jiri,

Few answers, I will give you a detailed report in the other thread.

>
> > Maybe try icedtea-1.8 as Jiri mentioned shell scripts were improved.
> >
>
> I need to clarify this.
> Please do not mix icedtea, build wrapper and enhancer around openjdk anf
> icedtea-web - javaws open
> implementation.  icedtea-web started as part of icedtea, thus the name,
> but now is completely
> separated project. With different version and release cycle.
>

OK, I wrote icedtea but I meant ITW, sorry.


>  > Maybe try icedtea-1.8 as Jiri mentioned shell scripts were improved.The
> shell launchers are
> deprecated in 1.8
>
> The sh/bat launchers are deprecated in 1.8. They are being rewritten to
> rust. The base are unix sh
> launchers.  Teh sh/bat files will kept living, as the are useful on
> linuxes, but all care will be
> given to new  win+linux shared native launchers.
>

What is the pros/cons of writing native launchers ?
I am very happy with simple (but straight forward) shell scripts, as it is
easy to edit / fix.
For example, I hacked the Makefile to keep generating windows batch files
to have them generated on linux and fix them on my windows test machine.
I am not sure if I would be able to perform cross-compilation on my linux
machine ...


>
>  > Maybe try icedtea-1.8 as Jiri mentioned shell scripts were improved.The
> shell launchers are
> deprecated in 1.8
>
> Nope:( We still did not moved with the rust launchers as much as we
> wished. The base is pushed, and
> jdk detection patch is under review. But taht is far from being
> experimented with on base jdk
> 11/12/8. Sorry. For this, the bat/sh lunchers stil have to be used.
>   Once the jdk detection will be in, all will be much faster I guess, and
> so 1.8 will land soon
> after it I hope.
>

I cloned the bleeding edge repository but the rust launchers are still
almost empty. Probably your changes are waiting for review...

Cheers,
Laurent
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