From: Kurt Miller <lists@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>, kurt@openbsd.org
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2026 11:51:03 +0000

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.

> 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
> > 
> > 
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> > <openjfx.tar.gz>
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