prerelase of icedtea-web 1.8
Jiri Vanek
jvanek at redhat.com
Tue Mar 12 16:35:33 UTC 2019
On 3/12/19 5:28 PM, Lars Herschke wrote:
>> Also, why it is not visible on linux? What is the scenario behind seeing it?
>
> There are two main subsystems under Windows. The CONSOLE subsystem
> (which is the default subsystem) will always create a console when
> launching the application. This is not something desirable when the
> application has a Windows GUI. To get rid of this console the
> application must be using the WINDOWS subsystem.
Yah. Considering my inability to handle windows, I have not mch choices then trust you (being
actually mega-happy that you are bringin the windows ITW to some level)
Wil merge it. Do you have any more pathches upcomming?
J,
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>
>
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen
>
> Lars Herschke
>
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> Jiri Vanek schrieb:
>> On 3/12/19 4:28 PM, Lars Herschke wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> attached a patch that prevents the extra console window on windows.
>>
>> Also, why it is not visible on linux? What is the scenario behind seeing it?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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Jiri Vanek
Senior QE engineer, OpenJDK QE lead, Mgr.
Red Hat Czech
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