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Re: Help to upgrade icedtea-web

From Vincent Privat <vincent@josm.openstreetmap.de>
Newsgroups linux.debian.maint.java
Subject Re: Help to upgrade icedtea-web
Date 2018-05-04 00:10 +0200
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2018-05-03 23:58 GMT+02:00 Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>:

> icedtea-web covers browser applets and Java Web Start applications. The
> applet part can be scrapped or disabled since it's no longer supported
> by current browsers. Oracle is removing JWS from Java 11, but this
> technology is still working and worth keeping I think.
>

I know :) We (JOSM) are deeply impacted by this sudden removal.
I'm in touch with Jiri Vanek from Red Hat to see how to improve Windows
support as well.
I hope we will succeed to replace JWS by ITW for most of our users.

I guess Matthias didn't update the VCS unfortunately. Not sure he still
> can, the update is two years old :(
>

Then I have another rookie question: aren't the binaries built from source?

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Help to upgrade icedtea-web Vincent Privat <vincent@josm.openstreetmap.de> - 2018-05-03 23:50 +0200
  Re: Help to upgrade icedtea-web Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org> - 2018-05-04 00:00 +0200
    Re: Help to upgrade icedtea-web Vincent Privat <vincent@josm.openstreetmap.de> - 2018-05-04 00:10 +0200
      Re: Help to upgrade icedtea-web Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org> - 2018-05-04 00:30 +0200
  Re: Help to upgrade icedtea-web Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org> - 2018-05-04 18:20 +0200
    Re: Help to upgrade icedtea-web Vincent Privat <vincent@josm.openstreetmap.de> - 2018-05-04 23:40 +0200
      Re: Help to upgrade icedtea-web Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org> - 2018-05-08 00:20 +0200
        Re: Help to upgrade icedtea-web Vincent Privat <vincent.privat@gmail.com> - 2018-05-08 00:40 +0200
          Re: Help to upgrade icedtea-web Vincent Privat <vincent.privat@gmail.com> - 2018-05-08 01:00 +0200
            Re: Help to upgrade icedtea-web Vincent Privat <vincent.privat@gmail.com> - 2018-05-08 13:40 +0200
              Re: Help to upgrade icedtea-web Vincent Privat <vincent.privat@gmail.com> - 2018-05-21 19:00 +0200
      Re: Help to upgrade icedtea-web Vincent Privat <vincent@josm.openstreetmap.de> - 2018-05-08 00:20 +0200

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