prerelase of icedtea-web 1.8

[Jiri Vanek]

I had pushed your jfxrt.jar fix (+also included it for shell and bat laucnhers) to head [1/8pre])

So onlu the registry and dunce remians, where I would like to have some dsicussion about
jre/jdk/others from registry. And dunce really have to be configure-able :(

J.

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
> 
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> 
> 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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Jiri Vanek
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Red Hat Czech
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