Great direction, this. One of the highlights of the year, from my point of
view!

Gj

On Thu, 16 Dec 2021 at 11:06, Neil C Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Dec 2021 at 01:19, Scott Palmer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Is the Zulu JDK the “full” one with JavaFX modules? I like to use that
> as it simplifies JavaFX development considerably.
>
> No, and we don't intend to provide this.  a) I think JavaFX
> development is better done using the Maven / Gradle JavaFX plugins,
> and b) it's easy to tweak the configuration and run the NBPackage
> command to build an installer with the runtime of your choice if you
> really want this.
>
> > Though I’m not likely to use an installer that bundles a JDK with NB, I
> think many students/beginners would. They would benefit from having things
> “just work”
>
> There is already a DEB package here without JDK.  I'm working on
> making sure all the package options can also run with a system JDK out
> of the box.  This would potentially offer us an alternative to the
> existing NBI installers that we could distribute via ASF.  I certainly
> don't think NBI is the right option in the long term, and we should be
> looking to use OS native packaging options.  Lots of benefits to that
> besides easier JDK bundling!
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Neil
>
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