prerelase of icedtea-web 1.8

[Lars Herschke]

> Am just curious how important you see that.


I think that's quite important. If I click on an exe and then always
have such a useless black window in the background, it seems somehow
unprofessional.

> /me consider conosle windows as good thing O:)

If I'm inside a console, it behaves as before.



Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Lars Herschke

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Jiri Vanek schrieb:
> Hi!
> 
> Is it worthy for 1.8?
> 
> I have all the binaries done and forest tagged.
> 
> I can of course retag and do the binaries again. Am just curious how important you see that.
> 
> /me consider conosle windows as good thing O:)
> 
> J.
> 
> 
> On 3/12/19 4:28 PM, Lars Herschke wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> attached a patch that prevents the extra console window on windows.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>> e-mail: lhersch at dssgmbh.de
>>
>>
>> Jiri Vanek schrieb:
>>> As few bugs were found, new prerelase is done:
>>>
>>> Linux
>>>  - https://jvanek.fedorapeople.org/itw/1.8/2/icedtea-web-1.8pre.linux.bin.zip
>>>  - https://jvanek.fedorapeople.org/itw/1.8/2/icedtea-web-1.8pre.portable.bin.zip
>>>
>>> Win
>>>  - https://jvanek.fedorapeople.org/itw/1.8/2/icedtea-web-1.8pre.win.bin.zip
>>>  - https://jvanek.fedorapeople.org/itw/1.8/2/icedtea-web-1.8pre.portable.bin.zip
>>>  - https://jvanek.fedorapeople.org/itw/1.8/2/itw-installer.msi
>>>
>>>
>>> In additon, prerelease of 1.7 is here:
>>>
>>> Linux
>>>  - https://jvanek.fedorapeople.org/itw/1.7/icedtea-web-1.7.2pre.linux.bin.zip
>>> Win
>>>  - https://jvanek.fedorapeople.org/itw/1.7/icedtea-web-1.7.2pre.win.bin.zip
>>>  - https://jvanek.fedorapeople.org/itw/1.7/itw-installer.msi
>>>
>>> Docs and fedora changes can be reused from original build:
>>>  - https://jvanek.fedorapeople.org/itw/1.8/1/icedtea-web-docs/
>>>  - https://jvanek.fedorapeople.org/itw/1.8/1/fedora
>>>
>>> If nothing more is found, I hope to make an release in Monday
>>>
>>> Thanx all!
>>>
>>> J.
>>> On 2/22/19 12:15 PM, Jiri Vanek wrote:
>>>> 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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