Re: [ jEdit-users ] Pinning jEdit Properly to Windows 7 taskbar

[Vampire <Vampire@jEdit.org>]

Ok, I've spend some days now to actually evaluate WinRun4j.
Of course I like the possibility to "correctly" pin jEdit to the
taskbar, meaning not having a different icon for a running instance,
and the process being named jedit.exe.
But actually it doesn't work really smooth.
It cannot be put into the build process properly as it must be
assembled on a 64bit Windows system to also assemble the 64bit
executables that are necessary for 64bit JVMs with WinRun4J.
It also doesn't reliably start the program in question.
In my tests the jEdit GUI was garbage most of the time.
Also the executable attributes like version, name and description
cannot be set correctly and thus in file assignment dialogs and so on
jEdit is not shown nicely.
The embedded icons are not shown reliably and this has nothing to do
with any caches as I moved and copied around the files to circumvent
eventual caches, ...

All in all I have to say that WinRun4J is a nice idea, but currently
too crappy for me using it in production environment.

Regards
Vampire

2011/4/18 Rowan Collins <row...@gm...>:
> Hi Vampire,
>
> Just wondering on what basis you have decided the project is not "stable":
> is it just because it has a version number less than 1.0?
>
> Given the large number of posts on this mailing list about correct
> versioning schemes, I'm surprised you don't realise that version numbers
> mean different things to different people - and in particular, hackers are
> scared of 1.0
>
> I don't know anything about the project in question, but looking at their
> website, I see that there have been 24 releases over 4 years (unless I'm
> much mistaken, 2007-05-07 is not "more than 5 years" ago...) I see no
> summary or FAQ to tell me how stable they consider their latest release, so
> wouldn't want to jump to conclusions.
>
> Maybe I'm being harsh, and you have actually looked into this, but since you
> admitted not looking into features, it seemed like "0.4.1 < 1.0.0" was the
> only evidence used to condemn its inclusion.
>
> Regards,
> Rowan Collins
> [IMSoP]
>
>
>
> On 09/04/2011 01:11, Vampire wrote:
>
> The problem is not about any features.
> I didn't look into the features, maybe there is a problem too.
> But the problem is that WinRun4J has not released any stable version yet
> since they exist over the last couple of years.
> jEdit in contrast is a pretty stable program.
> If jEdit now uses and depends on WinRun4J, then jEdit itself is not to be
> considered stable anymore.
> You know, a chain is only as strong as its weakest link
>
> John Smith schrieb:
>
> Hi:
>
> I'm not sure I understand the concern - if it does what is needed, then
> isn't that good enough?  Or is there some required feature that is present
> in Launch4J?  If so, I can look into making some changes to it.
>
> I admit that 5 years is a long time, and perhaps it's a dead project, but it
> seems like jEdit only needs a very basic launcher.
>
>
> On 8 April 2011 09:17, Vampire <Va...@je...> wrote:
>>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> unfortunately it isn't.
>> I was aware of WinRun4J alread.
>> But they are at version 0.4.2 which means they didn't get it managed
>> to release even one version they think theirselves is stable in more than
>> 5 years.
>> If you want to use that EXE for yourself, your free to do so of course.
>> But I don't think we will incorporate it into the standard distribution.
>>
>> Regards
>> Vampire
>>
>> John Smith schrieb:
>>
>> I haven't heard anything for a few days - is my solution acceptable?
>
> [Snipped]
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