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

[Tom Schindl]

Haveing the SDK-zips will solve all my current problems. Thanks for taking a Look.

Tom

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Am 08.05.2012 um 15:40 schrieb Kevin Rushforth <kevin.rushforth at oracle.com>:

> 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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