prerelase of icedtea-web 1.8

Tue Mar 5 13:28:41 UTC 2019

On 3/5/19 2:15 PM, Lars Herschke wrote:
>>> still I'm hesitating with your pathch:( What is do enforcer of this change?
> 
> I have this only changed for the sake of completeness. I had no issue
> with the old path.

ok. thank you.

But you put the bug to my head :)

The ext is on BootCP always. I'm not sure why original code was putting it to regualr classapth, and
why it was putting such a wrong path.  Any   more opinions on this would be welcomed:(
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> Mit freundlichen Grüßen
> 
> Lars Herschke
> 
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> Jiri Vanek schrieb:
>> 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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>>>
>>> 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:
>>>> 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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