Re: OpenJFX 9 integration
On 10/23/2017 01:00 AM, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
> Le 22/10/2017 à 12:57, Matthias Klose a écrit :
>> (C) looks like the best workaround for now. Looking at at least four security
>> releases per year, and maybe the double amount of package uploads, the OpenJDK
>> package has a higher upload frequency anyway. There is however a risk that an
>> OpenJDK (security) update won't build anymore with a prebuilt OpenJFX (not sure
>> if that is a real issue). In any case, the OpenJDK package should have a build
>> profile to build without OpenJFX support.
>
> Ok let's do that. The name of the package is open to discussion, as well
> as how the OpenJFX files will be distributed between the openjdk-9-*
> packages.
>
> For the name, since OpenJFX is now clearly becoming an extension of
> OpenJDK I was thinking about naming the source package
> "openjdk-9-openjfx" or "openjdk-9-jfx", and appending "-build" to the
> binary package. What would be a good location for installing the build
> directory?
>
> Regarding the distribution of the files, the lib/modules file of
> openjdk-9-jre-headless will now contain the JavaFX classes, but the
> native libraries should go into openjdk-9-jre. javapackager and
> ant-javafx.jar would go into openjdk-9-jdk-headless.
Can progress be made with the above? Or is it blocked on lack of
feedback from Matthias?
A number of packages fail to build now that openjdk-9 is the default-jdk
and are forced to disable openjfx support to keep their packages in testing.
Kind Regards,
Bas
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