prerelase of icedtea-web 1.8

Tue Mar 5 13:10:41 UTC 2019

On 3/5/19 2:04 PM, Lars Herschke wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> jdk11 on windows has no jfxrt.jar, neither openjdk nor oracle-jdk.

Hmm. You are right. Openjfx for jdk11 is module. I keep forgetting it.

still I'm hesitating with your pathch:( What is do enforcer of this change?

J.
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> Lars Herschke
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> Jiri Vanek schrieb:
>> I had just triple checked... although you are right, and fx is in lib/ext/fxrt.jar forjdk8,  ITW
>> really do work also with lib/fxrt.jar.
>>
>> HOWEVER - jdk11 runs only with lib/fxrt.jar...
>>
>> What was your symptom enforcing  the patch change to jre/lib/ext?
>>
>> If you really had to ahve this, then it have to be conditinal on JDK version.
>>
>> J.
>> On 3/5/19 11:32 AM, Lars Herschke wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> attached a patch that cause the following changes.
>>>
>>> acinclude.m4:
>>> - configure-switch --with-jdk-home acts on windows
>>>
>>> Makefile.am:
>>> - windows-fix for changeset 1565:7010aa9d9309
>>> - fixes for make clean with native plugin disabled
>>>
>>> rust-launcher:
>>> 1. Use cannonicalize from crate dunce, because std::fs:canonicalize
>>>    return on windows unc-paths like this \\?\C:\foo. This paths doesn't
>>>    work with spawn() from std::process::Command.
>>> 2. Correct path for jfxrt.jar
>>> 3. Use JRE-path instead of JDK-path from registry and don't panic if
>>>    this regkey doesn't exist, because jfxrt.jar, rt.jar and nashorn.jar
>>>    are only in the JRE-directory on openjdk. In addition users, that
>>>    have only installed JRE don't have the JDK-regkey in your registry.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Mit freundlichen Grüßen
>>>
>>> Lars Herschke
>>>
>>> Data-Service GmbH
>>> Beethovenstraße 2a
>>> 23617 Stockelsdorf
>>> Amtsgericht Lübeck, HRB 318 BS
>>> Geschäftsführung: Wilfried Paepcke, Dr. Andreas Longwitz,
>>>                   Dr. Uwe Szyszka, Dr. Hans-Martin Rasch
>>> Tel. (0451) 49 00-188
>>> Fax. (0451) 49 00-123
>>> e-mail: lhersch at dssgmbh.de
>>>
>>>
>>> Jiri Vanek schrieb:
>>>> TYVM. Pushed.
>>>>
>>>> Prerelase binraries will be updated on demand.
>>>>
>>>> J.
>>>>
>>>> On 2/25/19 10:39 AM, Olesya Gerasimenko wrote:
>>>>> Hello!
>>>>>
>>>>> Please find attached the updated Russian translation.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 22.02.2019 14:15, Jiri Vanek пишет:
>>>>>> Hello all!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please see the pre-release of icedtea-web 1.8: https://jvanek.fedorapeople.org/itw1.8/
>>>>>> If you can push it through your cases, it would be  awesome. There are native portable builds for
>>>>>> both win and Linuxes. There is also multiplatform portable build based on shell/bat launchers only.
>>>>>> I had also updated (not released!) fedora builds to this pre - see "fedora" text file:
>>>>>> While this prerelase is in testing, I would like to call alive translators - Russian and Czech - to
>>>>>> update theirs translations in
>>>>>> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea-web/file/tip/netx/net/sourceforge/jnlp/resources/. In
>>>>>> addition, I will start backporting of non-native patches to 1.7 so 1.7.2 can follow 1.8 very soon.
>>>>>> 1.8 will be released once translations are in place. Of course anything wrong reported with
>>>>>> pre-released tarballs will be fixed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Windows testing:
>>>>>>   * icedtea-web-1.8pre.portable.bin.zip
>>>>>>   * icedtea-web-1.8pre.win.bin.zip
>>>>>>   * itw-installer.msi
>>>>>>   + icedtea-web-1.8pre.tar.gz (sources for custom builds - optional)
>>>>>>   + https://jvanek.fedorapeople.org/itw1.8/icedtea-web-docs/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Linux testng:
>>>>>>   * iccedtea-web-1.8pre.linux.bin.zip
>>>>>>   * icedtea-web-1.8pre.portable.bin.zip
>>>>>>   * icedtea-web-1.8pre.tar.gz (sources for distributions and custom builds - mandatory)
>>>>>>   * fedora
>>>>>>   + https://jvanek.fedorapeople.org/itw1.8/icedtea-web-docs/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Note for JRE search:
>>>>>>   * windows shell scripts reads java_home or or registry
>>>>>>   * linux shell scripts reads java_home or defualt system jdk
>>>>>>   * native launchers reads in addition system paths
>>>>>> TBH, I doubt I covered all combinations when I run my suites
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cases (if you have lack of them, but many of them may be already dead):
>>>>>>   * https://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web-Tests#javaws
>>>>>>   *
>>>>>> https://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web-Tests#IcedTea-Web_webstart_.28javaws.29_test_applications
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Known bugs:
>>>>>> 3705 ---     Webstarted application tries to load resources from server incorrectly
>>>>>> 3704 ---     IcedTeaWeb doesn't run SAP PI web start interface - LAZY_CLASSLOADING_FAILED
>>>>>> 3697 ---     Custom JRE/JDK within UTF-8 folder name ( key deployment.jre.dir in in
>>>>>> deployment.properties ) are not properly handled
>>>>>> 3689 ---     DownloadService2 not implemented
>>>>>> 3672 ---     Classloader doesn't load jar correctly from JNLP extension
>>>>>> 3461 ---    (still) Cannot run HP ILO4 remote console application
>>>>>> Windows desktop shortcuts are suspected to not work with jdk11 and up
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Linux side, except native launchers and few bug fixes, not much changed. But for windows support
>>>>>> this is giant leap to be finally proper replacement for oracle javaws.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For 1.9 the plan is to remove plugin completely, and to move to github and under the wings of
>>>>>> AdoptOpenJDK....
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Looking forward for both  positive and negative feedbacks
>>>>>>    J.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>
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