Hi Kevin, Ok, so this should be the last change at least until the beginning of JFX9, that's a good news.
Thanks, Mario 2013/11/20 Kevin Rushforth <[email protected]> > Hi Mario, > > We don't upgrade our build environment lightly or frequently, and this > will be the last such upgrade for FX 8, since we are hitting rampdown phase > 2 in less than two weeks. > > Ordinarily, you should expect to receive more notice for these sort of > changes, and they should be done as part of a milestone build or similar. > > -- Kevin > > > > Mario Torre wrote: > > > 2013/11/20 Kevin Rushforth <[email protected]> > >> All, >> >> Primarily to fix https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-34171 we are >> upgrading our build environment for JavaFX 8 from gradle 1.4 to gradle 1.8. >> This will be done prior to next week's build for b118. I've been running >> gradle 1.8 for almost two weeks with no issues, and I know other have as >> well. We are doing final testing of the b117 bundles (a build of the b117 >> sources using gradle-1.8 will be compared with the gradle-1.4-built >> production). >> >> It will continue to be buildable with gradle 1.4 unless / until someone >> pushes a change requiring 1.8, but all developers are encouraged to upgrade >> to gradle 1.8 at their earliest convenient. >> >> Let me know if you have any questions or concerns. >> >> -- Kevin >> >> > > Hi Kevin, > > Are you planning to upgrade the build often? If not, what are the plans > and schedule for such updates? > > It is a real problem for Linux distribution to have a constantly moving > build tool, making packaging of JavaFX next to impossible. > > Cheers, > Mario > > -- > pgp key: http://subkeys.pgp.net/ PGP Key ID: 80F240CF > Fingerprint: BA39 9666 94EC 8B73 27FA FC7C 4086 63E3 80F2 40CF > > IcedRobot: www.icedrobot.org > Proud GNU Classpath developer: http://www.classpath.org/ > Read About us at: http://planet.classpath.org > OpenJDK: http://openjdk.java.net/projects/caciocavallo/ > > Please, support open standards: > http://endsoftpatents.org/ > > -- pgp key: http://subkeys.pgp.net/ PGP Key ID: 80F240CF Fingerprint: BA39 9666 94EC 8B73 27FA FC7C 4086 63E3 80F2 40CF IcedRobot: www.icedrobot.org Proud GNU Classpath developer: http://www.classpath.org/ Read About us at: http://planet.classpath.org OpenJDK: http://openjdk.java.net/projects/caciocavallo/ Please, support open standards: http://endsoftpatents.org/
