I'm only an application developer but I look at scr.zip occasionally and your proposal makes a lot of sense to me.
On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 6:51 AM Kevin Rushforth <kevin.rushfo...@oracle.com> wrote: > Are there any IDE users who are currently having problems as a result of > this? If not, I'll retarget this for a future release. > > -- Kevin > > > On 6/14/2021 1:15 PM, Kevin Rushforth wrote: > > We deliver a set of modular jars in the lib directory of the > > standalone JavaFX SDK. We also deliver src.zip for use by IDEs into > > that same directory. If you add the lib directory to your > > application's module path in your IDE, it will try to load src.zip as > > if it were a jar file, and will fail. This is a pain point for > > developers using the SDK. This problem has been raised on the mailing > > list a couple of times, and I think it's time to fix it. This issue is > > tracked in JBS by JDK-8258499 [1]. > > > > I propose to move the src.zip file from the lib directory to the top > > directory of the SDK. > > > > Alternatively, we could create a new directory for src.zip (either a > > sibling of lib or sub-directory under lib). However, I think it would > > be easier to find in the top dir of the SDK, and I don't see the need > > for a new directory just to hold src.zip. > > > > Before I create the PR and the associated CSR, I'd like to hear > > developer's opinions on this. > > > > -- Kevin > > > > [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8258499 > > > >
