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

[Kevin Rushforth]

Hi Tom,

I just looked and you are right...only see the .exe files were released 
for 2.1. I will check into this and get back to you.

The Mac issue will be trickier since we don't have any tested / 
supported standalone bundles of JavaFX 2.1 on Mac. As a released product 
JavaFX 2.1 for Mac is only available as part of JDK 7u4.

-- Kevin


Tom Schindl wrote:
> 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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