On Wed, 30 Jun 2021 15:06:50 GMT, Kevin Rushforth <k...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> The JavaFX SDK bundle provides a set of modular jars in the `lib` directory. > It provides a `src.zip` file for use by IDEs in that same `lib` directory. If > a developer adds the `lib` directory to their application's module path in > the IDE, it will try to load `src.zip` as if it were a jar file, and will > fail. This is a pain point for developers using the SDK. > > The proposed solution is to move the `src.zip` file from the lib directory to > the top directory of the SDK. > > With this fix, the layout of the SDK will be: > > > <sdk>/ > bin/ (Windows) > <native libraries> (Windows) > > legal/ > ... > > lib/ > *.jar > <native libraries> (macOS and Linux) > > src.zip > > > NOTES: > 1. The JavaFX Eclipse plugin will need a minor change, which is tracked by > eclipse-efx/efxclipse-eclipse#85. > 2. This still needs to be tested on IntelliJ This indeed makes it easier, at least on NetBeans, to avoid issues with source code and jars in the same directory. ------------- Marked as reviewed by jvos (Reviewer). PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jfx/pull/558
