prerelase of icedtea-web 1.8

[Jiri Vanek]

Interesting. Well I have no way to test it currenlty. Had you run also cargo test?

On 3/12/19 5:21 PM, Lars Herschke wrote:
>> 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
> 
> 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:
>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
> 


-- 
Jiri Vanek
Senior QE engineer, OpenJDK QE lead, Mgr.
Red Hat Czech
jvanek at redhat.com    M: +420775390109