Hi Kurt,

On Thu, Oct 8, 2026 at 2:04 AM Kurt Miller <lists@intricatesoftware.com>
wrote:

> I’m starting to look this over. Thanks for working on it.
> A few initial suggestions.
>
> I think CATEGORY = graphics makes sense as the primary category
> for this. The reason we try to avoid putting ports in the java
> category as primary is essentially we don’t do it for any other
> language - e.g. we don’t have python, rust, or go categories
> and put all python, rust or go programs in there.
>
> DESCR could be better. I yanked this from the javafx reference
> manual - feel free to use that or adjust it:
>
>   JavaFX is a set of graphics and media packages that enables
>   developers to design, create, test, debug, and deploy rich
>   client applications that operate consistently across diverse
>   platforms.
>
> I agree with the no ‘+’ on MODJAVA_VER and think your idea to
> accommodate multiple versions is good. Perhaps
> graphics/openjfx21 makes sense instead of another directory
> layer. Along the same lines in order to avoid conflicts with
> other OpenJFX versions, installing the jars into
> $MODJAVA_JAR_DIR/openjfx21/ would work nicely.
>

I'll move it to graphics/openjfx/21 with the hope, there might be a
Makefile.inc
I could place into graphics/openjfx, and there will be enough shared
items....


Sebastian


>
> Best,
> -Kurt
>
> > On Oct 5, 2026, at 3:44 PM, Sebastian Reitenbach <
> sebastia@l00-bugdead-prods.de> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > here's an updated version, that stores the unversioned jars into
> $MODJAVA_JAR_DIR, as suggested for other ports.
> > Also removed the leftover  do-install-not-anymore: target.
> > I just found the other day, that openjfx MAJOR version is supposed to
> match JDK Major version or JDK Major version -1, as stated here:
> https://wiki.openjdk.org/spaces/OpenJFX/pages/8257548/Building+OpenJFX#BuildingOpenJFX-OpenJDK
> Therefore MODJAVA_VER=21
> > Now with that figured, I wonder, if it would be a good idea to add
> java/openjfx/21 directory, to accommodate for multiple versions in parallel
> in the future?
> >
> > cheers,
> > Sebastian
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 28, 2026 at 7:54 PM Kurt Mosiejczuk <kurt@cranky.work>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 24, 2026 at 05:06:54PM +0200, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
> >
> > > attached updated version using FULLDISTDIR in the patch and SUBST_CMD
> it
> > > before building works for me.
> >
> > > Does it work for you as well?
> >
> > This works and build for me.
> >
> > ok kmos
> >
> > --Kurt
> >
> >
> > --
> > https://buzzdeee.reitenba.ch
> > <openjfx.tar.gz>
>
>

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