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From:
Kurt Miller <kurt@intricatesoftware.com>
Subject:
Re: NEW: java/openjfx
To:
Sebastian Reitenbach <sebastia@l00-bugdead-prods.de>
Cc:
Kurt Mosiejczuk <kurt@cranky.work>, Peter Hessler <phessler@theapt.org>, ports <ports@openbsd.org>
Date:
Fri, 9 Oct 2026 17:44:22 +0000

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On Oct 9, 2026, at 1:25 PM, Sebastian Reitenbach <sebastia@l00-bugdead-prods.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2026 at 1:51 PM Kurt Miller <lists@intricatesoftware.com> wrote:
> On Oct 8, 2026, at 3:32 PM, Sebastian Reitenbach <sebastia@l00-bugdead-prods.de> wrote:
> > 
> > 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....
> 
> Ah good idea.
> 
> 
> find attached the updated openjfx, now moved to graphics/openjfx/21
> Including updated DESCR as proposed above.
> 
> hope that's kind of final, and can go in.
> 

okay kurt@

> working on cleaning up autopsy itself, to hopfully send it soon as well.
> 
> cheers,
> Sebastian
> 
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