icedtea-web compatible with OpenJDK11

[Jiri Vanek]

>   > My scientific users are mainly linux/mac addicts.
> 
> 
>     Argh. Mac again.  That is area someone else will have to investigate.  I have never touched that,
>     nor do have any experience in support.
>     Mac can not live with untared binary?
> 
> 
> I mainly installed openjdk-11.tar.gz & my built itw as zip and just fixed few paths in javaws shell 
> (JAVA_HOME). It rocks !
> Somebody else in the community could work on an openjdk installer + ITW desktop integration (icons 
> as xdg-create-icons does not work and JNLP mime-type association) = out of scope.
> 
>     Once those few fixes are in, I think you will wish 1.7.2 release. I can definitely do it, and there
>     landed few more good patches in past, and 1.8 is still far from release.
> 
> 

Hmmm... So rust launchers, when compiled on generic linux, and provided with JAVA_HOME should work 
for your mac friends?
I would liek to understand this a bit more, to not kill the mac usecase.


Current waterfall in rus lunchers (pushed yesterday) is like this:

liunx
  * jvm
    - jvm set by properties
    - jvm from java_home
    - paths form  registry (no op)
    - jvm from hardcoded path
    - jvm from PATH //todo

win
  * jvm
    - jvm set by properties
    - jvm from java_home
    - paths form  registry //todo
    - jvm from hardcoded path (cygwin only)
    - jvm from PATH //todo

And depndencies similarly (jsut fully todo):

    - deps frmo itw_home? (later)
    - deps from hardcoded paths
    - deps from local directory
    - jvm from LIB_DIR/CLASSPATH

J.