Sure, though the question will be 'which JDK'. :-) There's about a dozen of them right now.
Gj On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 12:52 PM Patrick Musembi <[email protected]> wrote: > Can we also provide a link for downloading jdk if there is no jdk installed > mainly because of non-java developers. > > On Thu, May 30, 2019, 13:22 Geertjan Wielenga <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Excellent, thank you for this feedback. > > > > More from others, welcome. > > > > Gj > > > > On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 11:55 AM mike james < > [email protected] > > > > > wrote: > > > > > Hi > > > I'm new so tell me if I'm doing something wrong/odd. > > > > > > Can I just say that while experienced programmers have no problems with > > > "unzip this" and so on > > > NetBeans is a very attractive IDE for the complete beginner and an > > > installer lowers the barrier to > > > them getting started with NetBeans in particular rather than > > alternatives. > > > I has to be frictionless - well as much as possible. > > > I've tried the installer on Windows and it works very nicely. > > > Constructive comment - the final screen might say something more to > tell > > > the newbie where to find NetBeans- > > > Windows does a good job of hiding it unless you know its on the > desktop. > > > mikej > > > > > > On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 9:34 AM Geertjan Wielenga <[email protected] > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > Now that the installer sources are in our GitHub repo: > > > > > > > > https://github.com/apache/netbeans/tree/master/nbbuild/installer > > > > > > > > ...thanks to Reema's work here: > > > > > > > > https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/1052 > > > > > > > > Is there anything preventing us from including the installers as > > > > convenience binaries as part of the 11.1 release, instead of having > > them > > > > available as experimental installers in her repo here: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > https://github.com/rtaneja1/incubator-netbeans/tree/installer-bin-11vc4/nbbuild/installer/binaries > > > > > > > > Hope so, would be excellent -- the missing official installers is > > > probably > > > > our most requested feature. :-) > > > > > > > > Gj > > > > > > > > > >
