Re: jpackage: support for environment variables in --java-options

[Scott Palmer]

> On Sep 3, 2020, at 4:26 AM, Michael Hall <mik3h...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
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>> On Sep 2, 2020, at 10:07 PM, Scott Palmer <swpal...@gmail.com 
>> <mailto:swpal...@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> There is already a way to supply a custom Info.plist.  
>> That can have the LSEnvironment entries you want.
>> 
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8233175 
>> <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8233175>
>> 
>> I was under the impression that we were after something that would allow 
>> different values to get to the application based on environment variables.  
>> The env var values can’t be hard-coded in the Info.plist to do that, we want 
>> values that are expanded based on set environment variables on the user’s 
>> machine.  Isn’t that what this is about?
>> 
>> Scott
> 
> Yes for Serban’s thread. Which was already shown not to work OS X on the 
> users machine because user environment variables aren’t passed to 
> applications.

As I mentioned earlier, launchctl must be used to set environment variables 
that you want passed to GUI applications.

Scott