> On Apr 8, 2015, at 4:58 PM, Steve Dougherty <steve at asksteved.com> wrote: > > I've moved this to devl because it's no longer support. > > On 04/05/2015 06:54 PM, Eric Chadbourne wrote: >> Iâd like to be the OS X maintainer. Installer, tray, and bug >> squishing I could do. > > Welcome aboard!
Iâm so excited, thanks! Hopefully I can be of assistance to this excellent project. > > mrsteveman1 is already contributing to these things, so coordinating on > who's doing what would be good. There's a fair amount of activity in the > project IRC channel - #freenet on chat.freenode.net - care to join us? [0] Sure Iâll start signing into #freenet. I look forward to learning from mrsteveman1 and the rest of the team. All pointers welcome. > >> Are you the author of the tray app? If you currently donât have >> access to a mac I can attempt to submit a patch. > > I am not its author and haven't even worked with Objective C yet. > mrsteveman1 tells me they will open a pull request which brings the tray > up to date this evening. I do have a Mac, but I have no experience > developing OS X applications.q > >> Iâm reading up tonight on Oracle & Appleâs documentation on packaged >> releases. > > Sounds good. Thoughts on JNLP versus App packaging? In my experience > with Yosemite downloading a JNLP doesn't run it, and doesn't give > instructions to install Java if it's not installed. Oracle's app > packaging with a standalone JRE provided that it keeps itself up to date. Iâm new to OS X & Java (Gnu/Linux & PHP background) but from reading this it appears a native OS X application bundle is the way to go: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Java/Conceptual/Java14Development/00-Intro/JavaDevelopment.html Thanks, Eric C
