Why is the windows runtime/sdk only provided as .exe

[Tom Schindl]

Kevin - can you take a look at this once more? Since the 2.1 release the
zips for the SDKs are not available anymore!

One can only download the one for 2.2 so it looks like the dev-release
site was adjusted but the GA site not.

For those of use doing cross platform development and packaging JavaFX
with their apps getting geting the releases as zips is something really
important.

Sidenote: Even worse because I'm still on OS-X 10.6.8 I can't even
install JavaFX because the JDK-7 release requires at least 10.7.0 (I
know you are not support JavaFX prior to JDK 7)

Thanks

Tom

Am 04.01.12 17:37, schrieb Kevin Rushforth:
> Oh, maybe we don't actually release the SDK on the public web page
> either (I knew we didn't release the runtime as a zip since we don't
> even generate it internally).
> 
> -- Kevin
> 
> 
> Tom Schindl wrote:
>> Hi Kevin,
>>
>> Well maybe I'm blind but for win32 the there is NO zip available from
>> this page [1].
>>
>> The only thing available currently as a zip is the OS-X SDK version
>> which misses the win32 native libs not? I'll file a JIRA.
>>
>> [1]http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javafx/downloads/devpreview-1429449.html
>>
>>
>> Am 04.01.12 17:22, schrieb Kevin Rushforth:
>>   
>>> Good question. The SDK is available as both an installer and a zip, and
>>> we could consider make the runtime available as a zip file as well, so
>>> please file a JIRA feature request for this.
>>>
>>> As for your other question, it is not currently possible to have 2.0.2
>>> and 2.1 instaled side-by-side.
>>>
>>> -- Kevin
>>>
>>>
>>> Tom Schindl wrote:
>>>     
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Now that since 2.0.2 (and also 2.1) are redistributeable it might make
>>>> sense to provide them also as simple ZIP-Files.
>>>>
>>>> I find it odd that if I want to package JavaFX with my product that I
>>>> first have to install something only my system, navigate to the install
>>>> dir and copy over the stuff my own project directory.
>>>>
>>>> Is it BTW possible to have 2.1 and 2.0.2 installed next to each other? I
>>>> guess not which makes it hard to test with both versions on the same
>>>> system, which would be made much more easy if provided as simple
>>>> ZIP-Files.
>>>>
>>>> Would you mind providing JavaFX 2.1 binaries (and maybe also > 2.0.2) as
>>>> a simple zip-File like you do it with 2.1 OS-X ones?
>>>>
>>>> Tom
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>
>>
>>   


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