I'm on board with this, and agree that this would be a good one to move
forward.
-- Kevin
On 9/7/2021 3:49 PM, John Neffenger wrote:
On 8/19/21 1:27 PM, Kevin Rushforth wrote:
Those enhancements that have reached general consensus, are far
enough along in the process that we have a good idea how much they
will "cost", and have a willing contributor and sponsor (for
contributors who are not Committers), are more likely to make JavaFX 18.
I'd like to make a pitch for integrating the reproducible build support:
8264449: Enable reproducible builds with SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
https://github.com/openjdk/jfx/pull/446
It's not as glamorous as the user interface changes that have been
suggested. I think the change is inevitable, though, so it would be
great to have it integrated while I can still remember what I did.
I've tested it in two separate rounds of tests on all three platforms,
and it has been approved by two reviewers.
The JDK is also doing this work, driven mostly by Magnus Ihse Bursie
at Oracle in the OpenJDK Build Infrastructure Group. He calls it "a
low-effort, background-style project to make the build of OpenJDK
itself building reproducible."
For the original motivation, see the following closed pull request
that is now included in the one linked above:
8238650: Allow to override buildDate with SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
https://github.com/openjdk/jfx/pull/422
Thanks,
John
