Do we have to fear February?

[David DeHaven]

Ignore that… I replied to the wrong list :)

-Dr "list heavy" D-

> David,
> 
> I'm not sure what you are replying to since I don't appear to have
> any emails in this thread so I am guessing its something about
> Apple EOL'ing their JDK 6 and the need to bundle a JRE in future.
> 
> I don't see how using JavaFX makes that any different (better or worse),
> since I'd be pretty sure that Scott bundled a JRE runtime to run Ensemble.
> Its a 61Mb download :-). [But  large app store downloads are not that unusual.]
> 
> -phil.
> 
> On 10/19/2012 9:52 AM, David DeHaven wrote:
>>> I share pretty much every single one of Robert's concerns.
>>> It looks like come Feb 2013 I have to consider shipping my app with a bundled JDK7.
>>> And to my customers it will probably look like the app got *worse*, they will be upset and rightly so.
>>> 
>>> Any insights are highly appreciated.
>> 
>> Not trying to be facetious, but one could start investigating porting to JavaFX.
>> 
>> Ensemble is now available in the Mac App store:
>> https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ensemble/id557744983?mt=12
>> 
>> -DrD-
>> 
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