Re: Help to upgrade icedtea-web

[Vincent Privat <vincent@josm.openstreetmap.de>]

2018-05-03 23:58 GMT+02:00 Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>:

icedtea-web covers browser applets and Java Web Start applications. The
applet part can be scrapped or disabled since it's no longer supported
by current browsers. Oracle is removing JWS from Java 11, but this
technology is still working and worth keeping I think.

I know :) We (JOSM) are deeply impacted by this sudden removal.

I'm in touch with Jiri Vanek from Red Hat to see how to improve Windows support as well.

I hope we will succeed to replace JWS by ITW for most of our users.

I guess Matthias didn't update the VCS unfortunately. Not sure he still
can, the update is two years old :(

Then I have another rookie question: aren't the binaries built from source?