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authorNorbert Preining <preining@logic.at>2018-10-06 08:23:40 +0000
committerNorbert Preining <preining@logic.at>2018-10-06 08:23:40 +0000
commit7b0783b59d3e5ae474862fe9a3b6df60c4e4bf06 (patch)
treea29cfdeac8f2409d4acd8b516299995e2da1c3d2 /Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/tlcockpit
parentab3121ce87e3466683261ae386429ab3138c775b (diff)
update tlcockpit 1.0
git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@48838 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751
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-rw-r--r--Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/tlcockpit/NEWS5
-rw-r--r--Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/tlcockpit/README.md8
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/tlcockpit/NEWS b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/tlcockpit/NEWS
index 1be72691ded..8534c067fdd 100644
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/tlcockpit/NEWS
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/tlcockpit/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
NEWS for tlcockpit
+version 1.0 (20181006)
+----------------------
+- check for used Java version and abort if less than < 1.8 (Java 8)
+- add support for Cygwin
+
version 0.9 (20180408)
----------------------
- make package info dialog content copyable (as far as possible)
diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/tlcockpit/README.md b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/tlcockpit/README.md
index d4a767c1ed2..c5b9bbd8d26 100644
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/tlcockpit/README.md
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/tlcockpit/README.md
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Requirements
You need at least `tlmgr` from after 2017-11-23, in TeX Live language at least
version 45888 or `texlive.infra`.
-A recent Java installation that includes JavaFX is required. If you see
+A recent Java (at least Java 8) installation that includes JavaFX is required. If you see
errors like
```
Error: A JNI error has occurred, please check your installation and try again
@@ -44,6 +44,12 @@ that means that the Java installation does not provides JavaFX.
On Windows the latest JRE from Oracle include JavaFX. On Linux one might
need to install some extra packages (Debian/Ubuntu: openjfx).
+With recent release of Java 11 problems are getting worse, since JavaFX is now
+separately packaged, and ScalaFX only supports (by now) JavaFX8. That means, for
+now it is necessary to have a Java 8 installation. As soon as ScalaFX supports
+JavaFX11 we will move to use it.
+
+
Development
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