Hi, For Windows Uusers, the JDK as Windows Installer is often a pain, especially for automated build systems like Jenkins with dynamically spawned virtual machines. It is also impossible to have multiple versions installed for testing purposes in parallel (installing another one from same main version and update version, uninstalls the old one).
I think the question here was more generally - not Jigsaw-related: In the future, a ZIP file download of the JDK on Oracle's Homepage next to the Linux tgz files would be very good. I complained about that several times during the Lucene testing, where I currently always have to manually install all recent JDK preview builds (all versions) in our Windows VM by hand, overwrite the folder names in the installer GUI,... Just creating a directory and unzipping the files there would be so cool. Just like you do in Linux! As far as I know, there is no reason to *require* an Windows installer, so I'd suggest to maybe provide both options. People who want the windows installer and also automatically install a public JRE can do so with the installer, all others just unzip! Interestingly, the JRE can be downloaded as ZIP file on Oracle's Site, why not also the JDK? Uwe ----- Uwe Schindler uschind...@apache.org ASF Member, Apache Lucene PMC / Committer Bremen, Germany http://lucene.apache.org/ > -----Original Message----- > From: jigsaw-dev [mailto:jigsaw-dev-boun...@openjdk.java.net] On Behalf > Of Paul Benedict > Sent: Monday, July 11, 2016 6:33 PM > To: Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> > Cc: ZML-OpenJDK-Jigsaw-Developers <jigsaw-dev@openjdk.java.net> > Subject: Re: Ever a Windows ZIP to install? > > Thanks Alan. I actually want to get both as a ZIP though, so I figured > Jigsaw might be the right place to still ask, but no? Is core-lib a better > place? I like to switch between the EA JDK 9 builds and Jigsaw for > comparisons. Sometimes I want bleeding edge from Jigsaw; sometimes a > more > official feature set of what got pushed from Jigsaw. Got any tips where to > write instead? It's the lack of a ZIP with the EA builds that make this a > bit cumbersome. > > Cheers, > Paul > > On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Alan Bateman > <alan.bate...@oracle.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > On 11/07/2016 17:09, Paul Benedict wrote: > > > >> : > >> > >> It's a pattern I see myself and others do habitually for several years. So > >> if there's any insight you can provide on why a Windows ZIP doesn't exist > >> (policy? hasn't been asked for?), I would appreciate it. Thank you! > >> > >> > >> Since you send this to jigsaw-dev then I assume you mean the JDK 9 Early > > Access with Project Jigsaw builds [1]. The Windows downloads are zip files. > > > > -Alan > > > > [1] https://jdk9.java.net/jigsaw/ > >
