Removal of apps/scenebuilder from OpenJFX repo

[Kevin Rushforth]

That will be a question for Gluon.

-- Kevin


Michael Paus wrote:
> How will these changes then be synchronized with the work Gluon is 
> doing for the version
> distributed by them? Do they work on the same repo?
>
> Am 12.03.18 um 23:25 schrieb 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> -Florian
>>>
>>> Am Freitag, 2. März 2018, 09:12:15 CET schrieb Kevin Rushforth:
>>>> I filed the following JBS isuse to remova the SceneBuilder sources 
>>>> from the OpenJFX repo.
>>>>
>>>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8198961
>>>>
>>>> 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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