Polarbar Mailer 1.27 Beta 3

[Carl Miller]

Greetings to all,

The stable release of 1.27 is getting close with this third beta now available

for download and testing.

Changes from previous beta include:

- Debian package support (Java and FX included)

- Serious issues for Linux platform resolved (compose broken, etc.) (PBM-181)

- Custom icon support (PBM-177)

- Fixes related to color/font support (PBM-178)

- Numerous minor issues resolved

All downloads are available here: https://www.polarbar.net/download2.html

Please view the README.TXT file on that page, prior to downloading, to see the

extent of changes, requirements for running from the zip/.gz files, etc.

Thanks for using Polarbar Mailer and enjoy!

Yours truly,

The Polarbar Mailer Team

[dgh]

Beta 3 becomes unresponsive for me after it reports in the status bar that the current Bayesian corpus has been loaded.

Here are all of the polarbar.log messages from my most recent attempt:

2019-10-06 23:18:55,531 WARN  [jstreet] Starting The Polarbar Mailer (1.27 beta3 build 2327)

2019-10-06 23:18:55,551 WARN  [jstreet] Running under AdoptOpenJDK Java 11.0.4 (11.04).

2019-10-06 23:18:55,552 WARN  [jstreet] Java VM name OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM, OS 'Windows 10' version '10.0'.

2019-10-06 23:18:55,824 WARN  [jstreet] Using Java FX version 11.0.2

2019-10-06 23:18:58,063 WARN  [ClientServer] This instance of Polarbar is established as the mailto handler.

2019-10-06 23:18:58,122 INFO  [LogLabel] Loading the Bayesian message corpus.

2019-10-06 23:18:58,222 INFO  [NoteContainerCmds] Created a new keystroke command: ToggleFont (CTRL+T)

2019-10-06 23:18:58,223 INFO  [NoteContainerCmds] Created a new keystroke command: deleteNotePrompt(false) (CTRL+F9)

2019-10-06 23:18:58,321 INFO  [LogLabel] The current Bayesian message corpus has been loaded (42159 tokens).

[WildWilly]

On Sunday, October 6, 2019 at 11:23:08 PM UTC-4, dgh wrote:

Beta 3 becomes unresponsive for me after it reports in the status bar that the current Bayesian corpus has been loaded.

Here are all of the polarbar.log messages from my most recent attempt:

2019-10-06 23:18:55,531 WARN  [jstreet] Starting The Polarbar Mailer (1.27 beta3 build 2327)

2327?  Really?  Mine says 2328.  I would suspect you somehow have a mix of pieces from more than one of the betas.  But I'm just another dumb user so you should take that as a wildass guess.

[Carl Miller]

The MSI installer was built accidentally using a copy of the version class that had 2327 in it. It's the exact same code as beta3 otherwise.

Carl

[Carl Miller]

I am able to run the beta3 fine on Windows:

2019-10-07 04:46:04,804 WARN  [jstreet] Starting The Polarbar Mailer (1.27 beta3 build 2327)

2019-10-07 04:46:04,835 WARN  [jstreet] Running under AdoptOpenJDK Java 11.0.4 (11.04).

2019-10-07 04:46:04,835 WARN  [jstreet] Java VM name OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM, OS 'Windows 10' version '10.0'.

2019-10-07 04:46:05,090 WARN  [jstreet] Using Java FX version 11.0.2

2019-10-07 04:46:07,337 WARN  [ClientServer] This instance of Polarbar is established as the mailto handler.

2019-10-07 04:46:07,384 INFO  [LogLabel] Loading the Bayesian message corpus.

2019-10-07 04:46:07,386 INFO  [LogLabel] The current Bayesian message corpus has been loaded (0 tokens).

2019-10-07 04:46:08,189 INFO  [LogLabel] Loading folders...

2019-10-07 04:46:08,196 INFO  [LogLabel] Adding folders to control...

2019-10-07 04:46:08,200 INFO  [LogLabel] Folders loaded. Repainting...

2019-10-07 04:46:08,241 INFO  [LogLabel] Folder load completed.

Same stuff (I purposely re-downloaded and re-installed the msi on the website to eliminate any chances something I tested locally wasn't right). 

Carl

On Sunday, October 6, 2019 at 11:23:08 PM UTC-4, dgh wrote:

[dgh]

Polarbar 1.26 still works just fine. I guess I'll try nuking 1.27 from orbit and re-installing from the beta3 MSI.

[WildWilly]

I have some questions about the JDK.  I note that AdoptOpen has a JDK 13 available.  I'm on 11.0.4+11.  What is your stance on that?  I'm not looking for, "Well, you can try it & see if you like it."  I'm looking for, "Yes, go for it" or "No, don't bother.  I'll tell you when to move up to the newer release."  Their download page shows a choice for JVM: HotSpot or OpenJ9.  What is your stance on that?  I'm using HotSpot.  What are the pros & cons of the other one?  Should I bother with it?  Also, Gluon is showing a JFX 11.0.4 while I'm using 11.0.2.  What is your stance on that?  Again, I'm looking for just a simple upgrade/don't bother answer.

[Carl Miller]

Java is on some crazy 6 month cycle, who can keep up with that? 11 is long term support, if it works, there's no reason to switch. Same with FX. What Gluon offers is paid support if you want 11.0.4.

Carl