prerelase of icedtea-web 1.8

Tue Mar 5 13:15:43 UTC 2019

>> 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.

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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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>>>
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