To add fuel to the fire, I have seen issues in the JIRA going from "assigned" to "unassigned", for multiple assignees. Also, Steve is now (back) at IBM: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/stevenorthover.
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 5:32 PM, Tobias Bley <t...@ultramixer.com> wrote: > which future should it be? IoT? > > >> Am 04.03.2015 um 23:29 schrieb Felix Bembrick <felix.bembr...@gmail.com>: >> >> JavaFX has a future but perhaps not the one we were all expecting or hoping >> for. >> >> On 5 March 2015 at 09:18, Tobias Bley <t...@ultramixer.com >> <mailto:t...@ultramixer.com>> wrote: >> In the past there were 2 bad signs from Oracle concerning JavaFX: end of >> support for JavaFX on RaspPi and SceneBuilder… >> >> So does have JavaFX a future? >> >> Tobi >> >> >> > Am 04.03.2015 um 23:14 schrieb Mike Hearn <m...@plan99.net >> > <mailto:m...@plan99.net>>: >> > >> > That's great Johan, but ...... what does this mean, exactly? Is SB >> > effectively dead at this point? Short of some horrifically convoluted >> > corporate politics I can't understand why Oracle would develop an >> > application but not provide downloads of it. Does this mean SB won't be >> > upgraded past 8u40? >> > >> > I mean - I don't think it's unreasonable of me to be surprised by this, and >> > I thought I followed JFX development pretty closely. What's the story here? >> > >> > On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Johan Vos <jo...@lodgon.com >> > <mailto:jo...@lodgon.com>> wrote: >> > >> >> Oracle stated that they won't release new binaries for SceneBuilder, but >> >> since the code is open-source and BSD licensed, third parties and the Java >> >> Community in general can create binaries based on the SceneBuilder >> >> sources. >> >> This is what we did at Gluon (http://gluonhq.com <http://gluonhq.com/>), >> >> and the result can be >> >> downloaded at http://gluonhq.com/products/downloads/ >> >> <http://gluonhq.com/products/downloads/> >> >> This download is based on the latest 8u40 source code in OpenJFX. It >> >> includes the 8u40 Controls (e.g. Spinner, Dialogs). >> >> >> >> Hope this is helpful. >> >> >> >> - Johan >> >> >> >> 2015-03-04 16:31 GMT+01:00 Mike Hearn <m...@plan99.net >> >> <mailto:m...@plan99.net>>: >> >> >> >>> Hi Kevin, >> >>> >> >>> Scene Builder source code is available in the OpenJFX repo under the BSD >> >>>> license, but separate binaries are no longer being released as of 8u40. >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> I'm a bit confused what this means. >> >>> >> >>> People who want to use Scene Builder are expected to compile it >> >>> themselves >> >>> from now on? Does that really make sense? Presumably the idea here is >> >>> that >> >>> SB will be integrated into IDEs and will no longer have any purpose as a >> >>> standalone app, but I'm not sure we're ready to go there yet - the last >> >>> time I tried the SB integration into IntelliJ it was extremely basic and >> >>> far below the experience of the dedicated app. >> >>> >> >>> As just one example, UI design benefits a lot from maximal screen space. >> >>> IDE embeddings often don't provide that. >> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >
