prerelase of icedtea-web 1.8

[Lars Herschke]

> Do you have any  more pathches upcomming?

No.



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:
> 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,
>>
>>
>>
>> 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:
>>> 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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>>>
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