Building WebKit is challenging, to be sure. I hope to enlist the help of
some of our WebKit team members to review (and contribute to) update
build instructions to help make it a little less painful, but it is
still a challenge.
As for the moving version of gradle, we so far have settled on a
specific version for each release family: gradle 1.8 for JDK 8u, 3.1 for
JDK 9, and 4.3 for JDK 10. We don't tend to bump it.
Thanks for the feedback.
-- Kevin
Mario Torre wrote:
For me the most intricate part is about building the webkit based
code, especially on RHEL/CentOS. I admit I didn't try with the very
latest code drop though. The moving version of Gradle is also an
issue, since we try to use a stable toolchain on those OSes.
Cheers,
Mario
2017-12-19 21:11 GMT+01:00 Phil Race <[email protected]>:
In the "innovation" email thread it was suggested that one obstacle to
getting involved and contributing to OpenJFX is just building it.
So what are the top one or two pain points with building OpenJFX today ?
- Insufficient or out-dated build docs ?
- Tool-chain configuration problems - platform-specific or otherwise ?
- Needing to do a JDK build as well (JDK 9 and later) ?
- Something else ?
And having identified your pain point(s), what do you think would be a
solution ?
-phil.
