openjfx8-devel future question

[Dr. Jochen Raßler]

Thank you Kurt for your reply. I have to look more detailed into this.

I'm quite new to FreeBSD on the one hand an the gradle build tool on the 
other hand. (And gradle is what is used by openjfx)

What I understood currently is that gradle downloads the dependencies 
only for building the package. To run a application, the dependencies 
have to be installed, otherwise the application will crash with some 
exceptions (in case of Java). So there seems to be a difference between 
FreeBSD ports and dependencies to the build process.
Why does the ports system not build and install the dependencies firstly 
and use those installed packages for the further build process? They 
will be needed anyway for the completely build package...

Or maybe I am missing a important point...

regards,
Jochen


Am 06.03.2017 um 18:55 schrieb Kurt Jaeger:
> Hi!
>
>> currently I'm developing a email client using OpenJDK8 and openJFX8 (and
>> of course javamail) under FreeBSD 11 STABLE.
>
> Interesting.
>
>> I'd like to use the HTMLEditor widget, which is part of the JavaFX
>> framework, but not running under the above mentioned configuration, as
>> openjfx does not compile against webkit (or parts of it). There are more
>> such artifacts, as for example MP3 player widget, which needs gstreamer.
>> Obviously, those dependencies are defined for the package, but not
>> included by the gradle build script for FreeBSD. This might be, because
>> of some maven repositories, as e.g. webview
>> (https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/sun/webkit/webview-deps/1.3/) having
>> no FreeBSD definition files.
>
> From what I understand: If you have java code that needs to be compiled
> using maven, maven automagically fetches dependencies from
> the maven repos out there.
>
> The problem for a freebsd port is: during the build phase not
> 'fetch from extern' is allowed, so we need to explicitly name
> the distfiles to be fetched before, which breaks a lot of the
> maven assumptions and is a mess to maintain.
>
>> Are there any plans to include full openjfx support in the next FreeBSD
>> release or any integration for the upcoming OpenJDK9?
>> Maybe is there
>> already support in CURRENT? Is there any political reason not to include
>> those packages (license,..)?
>
> The problem is the build process in the ports framework.
>
> If someone would integrate the fetch-distfile process of maven
> in the ports framework, all those java codes build using maven
> would be become much more simpler to maintain.
>
> See the discussion in
>
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188110#c37
>
> and followups.
>

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