Why is jfxrt.jar not distributed as .pack?

[Richard Bair]

Kevin, do you know?

On Nov 26, 2012, at 8:12 AM, Sven Reimers <sven.reimers at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> the subject says it all. rt.jar is delivered inside the jre installer as a
> .pack file to reduce download bandwidth / distribution size. Why is
> jfxrt.jar not delivered the same way?
> 
> Should this be the case? Is this behaviour intentional? Shall I file a bug
> with JIRA?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -Sven
> 
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