xawt??

[Phil Race]

On 5/16/2013 10:04 AM, Artem Ananiev wrote:
>
> On 5/16/2013 8:57 PM, Phil Race wrote:
>> Artem,
>>
>> Is http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=8001338
>> [macosx] -Dawt.toolkit=sun.awt.X11.XToolkit option does not work
>>
>> considered to be the right bug to track this, since the last comment is
>>
>> "I think that we should not support XToolkit on Mac OS X." ?
>
> No, it's a separate issue. As written in the bug comments, XToolkit 
> works on OS X in general, it just doesn't start if only awt.toolkit is 
> specified. If, in addition to awt.toolkit, you also specify the right 
> java.awt.graphicsenv, it will launch.
>
> The comment is correct, but it doesn't say anything about what JDK 
> version XToolkit should not be supported in :) As I wrote in the 
> previous email, my vote is JDK8.

Artem,

I know that. What I am asking is what is the bug id used to track the 
build change ?
I spent a while searching and that's the closest match I found.

-phil.

>
> Thanks,
>
> Artem
>
>> -phil.
>>
>> On 5/16/2013 8:58 AM, Artem Ananiev wrote:
>>>
>>> On 5/16/2013 7:36 PM, David DeHaven wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I found about four issues pertaining to this particular problem
>>>> (including the one I'm working on). I think ideally, it should be a
>>>> configure switch so if someone wants to build it then they can, but
>>>> for production purposes it should be off.
>>>>
>>>> I was hoping to fix jawt_md.h for 7u40 though...
>>>
>>> Such a change as removing XAWT should be done in major releases. When
>>> a component becomes obsolete, it is first made non-default, then
>>> deprecated in the next major release, then removed in the next next
>>> major release. This is what we did for MToolkit, for example.
>>>
>>> So let us get rid of XAWT in JDK8, not 7uX.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Artem
>>>
>>>> -DrD-
>>>>
>>>>> Hi, David.
>>>>> Yes there is a bug on it for jdk8. The reason why it is exists, is
>>>>> used for comparing of a rendering of aqua/xawt.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 16.05.2013 3:12, David DeHaven wrote:
>>>>>> Is there any particular reason xawt (and awt/X11) is being built on
>>>>>> Mac?
>>>>>> Is anyone actually using it or is this just some vestige of the
>>>>>> initial port that wasn't shut off?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> To me it just looks like a whole mass of dead code wasting space in
>>>>>> the JRE.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> More importantly, it's getting in the way of fixing the Mac OS X
>>>>>> jawt_md.h so it's actually usable...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -DrD-
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> Best regards, Sergey.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>