What's the difference between Bintray's binary distributions?

[nihil-admirari]

Hi.

Bintray has multiple packages for the same build:

• jbr-11_0_8-linux-x64-b1129.2.tar.gz;
• jbr_dcevm-11_0_8-linux-x64-b1129.2.tar.gz;
• jbr_fd-11_0_8-linux-x64-b1129.2.tar.gz;
• jbr_jcef-11_0_8-linux-x64-b1129.2.tar.gz;
• jbr_jfx-11_0_8-linux-x64-b1129.2.tar.gz;
• jbr_nomod-11_0_8-linux-x64-b1129.2.tar.gz.

As far as I can tell:

• nomod is vanilla JRE;
• jfx is JRE + JavaFX;
• jcef is JRE + Java Chromium Embedded Framework;
• unqualified TAR is JRE + JavaFX + JCEF;
• dcevm is JRE + JCEF + Dynamic Code Evolution VM (class hotswap), but without JavaFX.

What fd stands for? Its module list is the same as in jcef, but binaries have different hashes.

JCEF and JavaFX are used by IDEA to e.g. render Markdown. If I prefer JCEF renderer, would a version without JavaFX be sufficient, or it is used by other parts of IDEA?

[vprovodin]

fd is fastdebug binaries

BTW In the latest release notes for 2020.2 e.g. https://confluence.jetbrains.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=190513155 you can see the Downloads table with various binaries, it contains links to Bintray - unfortunately it have not contained links to fd tarballs.
Release notes for 2020.3 are pending

[nihil-admirari]

Ok. Page you referenced says JBR + JCEF is bundled by default, which means that JavaFX is really not necessary for IDEA to function. Closing the issue.