openjfx8-devel future question

[Kurt Jaeger]

Hi!

> 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,

So the dependencies have to be defined as RUN_DEPENDS in the port Makefile.

> 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.

The ports system knows different types of dependencies (LIB_, RUN_, BUILD_
etc)

> Why does the ports system not build and install the dependencies firstly
> and use those installed packages for the further build process?

Depends on the port -- sometimes the port maintainer did not specify
all the dependencies in a proper manner. Sometimes, some dependencies
are not needed in every use case, so they are marked optional.

There are many different reasons how this can be resolved.

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