[Rails-devel] Webstart / github / Java 8 (was: Rails 2.0 alpha 3 available)

[Stefan F. <ste...@we...>]

Changing it to https on sourceforge is not possible, as far as I know 
sourceforge does not provide any https hosting.

Maybe Brett knows better.

However I assume it likely that the recent change of Webstart security 
permissions by Oracle will bring some demand for such hosting.

And I expect that Java applications will get another push from upcoming 
release of Java 8. Especially as JavaFX and Javascript will be fully 
integrated into core Java and that allows new features to UI design and 
application deployment.

See e.g. 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javafx/overview/roadmap-1446331.html

That is the reason why I am still reluctant to make a rewrite of the UI 
(by integrating MigLayout) now, as it might be worth for waiting to the 
new developments there.

So for the time being I really like Webstart for rolling out releases in 
short intervals, but not so much to deploy to the end-users.

I think this is something we should consider in a broader context:
Should we move the repo from sourceforge to github?
Myself I would prefer to use github instead of sourceforge as my feeling 
is that github is the better solution in the long-run.

Stefan


> Hi Stefan,
>
> i was able to successfully start the alpha 3 after updating Java and
> fiddling with the security :)
> The http-Protocol is raising all kind of flags, any insight what does it
> take to switch to https ?
>
> Regards,
> Martin
>
>
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