[jbosstools-dev] Do we still need Xulrunner in Devstudio?

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

On 29 Sep 2016, at 17:37, Nick Boldt wrote:

> Why wouldn't it be a solution?

before you guys get all trapped in VPE issues for the <10% of users
please also remember that browsersim and cordovasim relies on JavaFX
which afaik still is not available on RHEL and Fedora OpenJDK.

Thus we already have cases where we got features we just can't support on
RHEL and Fedora because the baseOS/VM's don't support the necessary features.

And even if users installs Oracle JDK to work around this then at least
last time I looked at it JavaFX had hard bindings to GTK2 too.

Here is my suggestion:

List the features that are non-supportable on Red Hat Linux desktop.

Exclude or disable them by default in the RPM distro.

Go look at the usage stats we added 1-2 years ago to track how
much the various editors/simulators are used.

Document it and review it for the next years major release train
as a team and with PM being aware of the issues.

/max
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