-----Original Message----- From: Fred Smith fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us Sent: Monday, May 13, 2019 11:56 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] JavaFX on C7 ?
On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 02:11:42PM +0000, Denniston, Todd A CIV USN NSWC CD CRANE ID (USA) wrote:
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A somewhat more accessible answer is at [1], though it is a bit depressing: "Does Red Hat's OpenJDK distribution included JavaFX? No. Red Hat does not have plans to deliver JavaFX or the OpenJFX project in our distribution."
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In the meantime, it looks like if we really need JFX, we will have to stoop down to the Oracle version and the maintenance fun that brings.
Do I conclude that you don't expect the openjfx bits to work in El7?
Fred
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Actually I am expecting that it is worse than that... as in no openjfx bits *in* EL8 either[7]. I think that 'openjfx bits' would *work* in EL7 & EL8, it is just that we would have to go through the pain building and maintaining it ourselves. I would like to know why RH is not interested in supporting it. I would have expected that when fedora included it that there should not have been any patent/licensing restrictions showing up, so why is RH not including it?
[7] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1669672
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