I don't see that as a requirement. In the same way as the experimental installer we have right now, we could create an installer for this which, if no JRE is present, a message would appear that it needs to be obtained from some specific place -- what that place is is the question.
Gj On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 6:53 AM Laszlo Kishalmi <laszlo.kisha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, > > I do not know how dead JRE is, however this distro would have only > meaningful if we can actually pack the JRE along the code and yes > probably installable with a proper installer. > > I could probably make a Snap for such a distro for Linux without too > much hustle, though I do not think I legally ship/distribute it as > Apache NetBeans. Or maybe as it would be an unofficial convenience > binary which would not be hosted on Apache infra... > > I do not really know. > > On 4/20/19 1:12 PM, Matthias Bläsing wrote: > > Hi, > > > > at this point in time I don't see any benefit in producing a bunch of > > different netbeans releases. > > > > Am Freitag, den 19.04.2019, 21:57 -0400 schrieb Geertjan Wielenga: > >> I think one of the coolest things we could do together is spin out a > >> separate distro specifically for PHP/JS type developers. > > what is the use case of that special distribution? > > > >> We had that before, it only requires JRE, not JDK, and would mean the > >> potential for a small snappy editor-focused tool (that as a side effect > >> could be interesting for users of a few comparable editors we can all > think > >> of). > > The JRE is dead (for any Java version >= 9), at least that is what > > every java vendor is telling. You can either get a JDK from Azul or Red > > Hat and/or Amazon or stay in the past with JRE derived from JDK 8. > > > > If we could build a fully runnable NetBeans for people not interested > > in Java, ok, but neigther the ASF, nor Oracle do anything visible to > > resolve the big problem in the room: > > > > GPLv2+CPE at this time is not acceptable as a dependency for the ASF at > > this time (there is an open issue, that asks for moving GPLv2+CPE to > > Category B, but the ASF side raised concers and noone stood up to calm > > them. > > > > I don't think, that random comments will help here: > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-336 > > > > But comments from lawyers, preferable from oracle, could help to > > resolve this. Mayber it would be possible to reword the CPE to make it > > compatible with the ASFs requirements for dependencies. > > > > That would help _many_ apache projects, as many apache projects are > > Java projects and so implicitly depend on OpenJDK (if I'm not mistaken > > there is _no_ other open source Java distribution out there, that is > > even remotely as up-to-date and open as OpenJDK). > > > > Just my 2 cents. > > > > Greetings > > > > Matthias > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.apache.org > > > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.apache.org > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > >
