So, is this a call for community and Gradle experts please helps us? We are able (and want) to upgrade to a newer gradle version?
We want to share the whole pile of dirty gradle scripts to get you started? Sounds interesting to me... -Sven Am 27.05.2015 18:48 schrieb "David Hill" <david.h...@oracle.com>: > On 5/27/15, 12:08 PM, Scott Palmer wrote: > >> On May 27, 2015, at 10:04 AM, David Hill<david.h...@oracle.com> wrote: >>> >>> On 5/24/15, 10:56 AM, Scott Palmer wrote: >>> >>>> Where can I find the instructions for building Scene Builder from >>>> source? >>>> >>>> >>>> I ran Ant in the apps/scenebuilder folder and it produced >>>> SceneBuilderApp.jar in the 'SceneBuilderApp/dist' folder. But where's >>>> the >>>> rest of it? It looks like the javapackager part does run >>>> automatically, so >>>> I don't have a native executable with a nice icon and all those >>>> finishing >>>> touches that make it a "real" app. >>>> >>> I am in the process of adding a "run" command to the ant script. We do >>> not have plans at the moment to add a packaging step. >>> >> What happened to the original packaging step? The Oracle download is a >> packaged app, was it a manual step or something? I can’t even find the >> application icon in the source. >> >> Our internal build has 2 parts - OpenJFX and the "closed" stuff. The > "closed" stuff has a lot of legacy steps that we have not had the time or > inclination to move to the OpenJFX side. (after all, working with a complex > chunk of delicate gradle/ant code for a long time tends to make your eyes > bleed). > > But occasionally we get some motivation and we move another bit of > functionality over. I did ask our packager guy if he could sketch out how > to do this standalone, so it might happen. > >> I did notice the build output print a "jfx-deployment:" step, but I guess >>>> that is something else. I haven't used Ant in years, so I'm a little >>>> rusty. I was actually surprised that there wasn't a Gradle script in >>>> the >>>> apps/SceneBuilder folder. I thought perhaps the apps are just using the >>>> default NetBeans project format. I then noticed when loading the >>>> project >>>> in NetBeans that I didn't get the little "FX" decal on the coffee cup >>>> icon, >>>> so it isn't a NetBean "JavaFX" project. >>>> >>> When I added in the building of the apps in the overall tree, I was >>> constrained by several things that gradle does not (or did not) play nicely >>> with. >>> We wanted to treat most of the items as independent sub projects, and at >>> least some of them have ant scripts that needed to be included in the >>> samples bundles. >>> >>> To shorten the story, after a long while of tinkering, I found that for >>> our purposes, ant worked better for us. Gradle imports the ant projects, >>> and allows us to call into them. >>> >> Fair enough, there’s only so much tinkering one can take, I’ve been >> through a fair bit of Gradle tinkering myself. >> (My hope is that one day OpenJDK + OpenJFX will build simply with ‘grade >> build', using Gradle’s support for native builds. Especially on Windows >> where it would simplify things a lot if you can avoid dependencies on >> Cygwin or MinGW. Gradle’s native support is still incubating so it is a >> bit early to go there, but I’ve used it recently for some Java +JNI >> projects on Linux, Mac, and Windows (with Visual Studio, not GCC) and it >> actually worked quite well.) >> > We switched to gradle early on after a long time with a big pile'o ant > scripts. Major rework for that. We were limited by the gradle versions we > could get at the time. Some choices like what we could do in the apps dir > were limited by that. More major rework when we moved as much as we could > to OpenJFX. Now, if we had a dedicated build engineer we might be able to > rebuild our current gradle to use the new features. But as we only have > part time on about 3 guys willing to dive into that build mess that each > have a huge pile 'o bugs... :-) > > > -- > David Hill<david.h...@oracle.com> > Java Embedded Development > > "A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey > the world." > -- George Santayana (1863 - 1952) > >
