Removal of apps/scenebuilder from OpenJFX repo

[Kevin Rushforth]

Hi Florian,

By way of update, after thinking about this for a week (and getting some 
offline feedback), I no longer propose doing this -- at least not for 
the short-mid term. I've retargeted this RFE to tbd_major and lowered 
the priority to P4.

Having said that, we don't have any plans to modify SceneBuilder, but 
will happily accept contributions.

-- Kevin


Florian Brunner wrote:
> OK, this still comes a bit as a surprise as the source code has been kept in the repo and was not just provided as a ZIP file.
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> I'm currently working on a tool based on the SceneBuilder Kit. I needed to work on the code a bit and was planning to donate the code back to OpenJFX once released, as I was under the impression OpenJFX would serve as the master / upstream-repo for all SceneBuilder forks. I was also under the impression that OpenJFX at least would make sure the code works with any new JDK / JavaFX version and hoped it would get support for new controls, if any were added to JavaFX.
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> -Florian
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> Am Freitag, 2. März 2018, 09:12:15 CET schrieb Kevin Rushforth:
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>> I filed the following JBS isuse to remova the SceneBuilder sources from 
>> the OpenJFX repo.
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>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8198961
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>> As mentioned in the Description of that issue, the OpenJFX repo contains 
>> the source code for a no-longer-maintained version of the SceneBuilder 
>> tool. Active development on SceneBuilder in the OpenJFX repo was stopped 
>> over three years ago. Since that time, the only changes have been either 
>> jigsaw-related changes to keep it buildable and runnable, or global 
>> changes that happened to touch some of the files in apps/scenebuilder.
>>
>> A fork of SceneBuilder is maintained by Gluon, so anyone wanting to get 
>> the latest SceneBuilder should go there.
>>
>> Before I proceed, I wanted to poll the list to see whether anyone has a 
>> concern with this. I don't plan to take any action for at least a week.
>>
>> -- Kevin
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