8u40 is released

[Tomas Mikula]

To add fuel to the fire, I have seen issues in the JIRA going from
"assigned" to "unassigned", for multiple assignees. Also, Steve is now
(back) at IBM: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/stevenorthover.

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 5:32 PM, Tobias Bley <tobi at ultramixer.com> wrote:
> which future should it be? IoT?
>
>
>> Am 04.03.2015 um 23:29 schrieb Felix Bembrick <felix.bembrick at gmail.com>:
>>
>> JavaFX has a future but perhaps not the one we were all expecting or hoping for.
>>
>> On 5 March 2015 at 09:18, Tobias Bley <tobi at ultramixer.com <mailto:tobi at ultramixer.com>> wrote:
>> In the past there were 2 bad signs from Oracle concerning JavaFX: end of support for JavaFX on RaspPi and SceneBuilder…
>>
>> So does have JavaFX a future?
>>
>> Tobi
>>
>>
>> > Am 04.03.2015 um 23:14 schrieb Mike Hearn <mike at plan99.net <mailto:mike at plan99.net>>:
>> >
>> > That's great Johan, but ...... what does this mean, exactly? Is SB
>> > effectively dead at this point? Short of some horrifically convoluted
>> > corporate politics I can't understand why Oracle would develop an
>> > application but not provide downloads of it. Does this mean SB won't be
>> > upgraded past 8u40?
>> >
>> > I mean - I don't think it's unreasonable of me to be surprised by this, and
>> > I thought I followed JFX development pretty closely. What's the story here?
>> >
>> > On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Johan Vos <johan at lodgon.com <mailto:johan at lodgon.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Oracle stated that they won't release new binaries for SceneBuilder, but
>> >> since the code is open-source and BSD licensed, third parties and the Java
>> >> Community in general can create binaries based on the SceneBuilder sources.
>> >> This is what we did at Gluon (http://gluonhq.com <http://gluonhq.com/>), and the result can be
>> >> downloaded at http://gluonhq.com/products/downloads/ <http://gluonhq.com/products/downloads/>
>> >> This download is based on the latest 8u40 source code in OpenJFX. It
>> >> includes the 8u40 Controls (e.g. Spinner, Dialogs).
>> >>
>> >> Hope this is helpful.
>> >>
>> >> - Johan
>> >>
>> >> 2015-03-04 16:31 GMT+01:00 Mike Hearn <mike at plan99.net <mailto:mike at plan99.net>>:
>> >>
>> >>> Hi Kevin,
>> >>>
>> >>> Scene Builder source code is available in the OpenJFX repo under the BSD
>> >>>> license, but separate binaries are no longer being released as of 8u40.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> I'm a bit confused what this means.
>> >>>
>> >>> People who want to use Scene Builder are expected to compile it themselves
>> >>> from now on? Does that really make sense? Presumably the idea here is that
>> >>> SB will be integrated into IDEs and will no longer have any purpose as a
>> >>> standalone app, but I'm not sure we're ready to go there yet - the last
>> >>> time I tried the SB integration into IntelliJ it was extremely basic and
>> >>> far below the experience of the dedicated app.
>> >>>
>> >>> As just one example, UI design benefits a lot from maximal screen space.
>> >>> IDE embeddings often don't provide that.
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>
>