+1 I'd also welcome an option to make it easier to ship a NetBeans Platform app with bundled (Zulu) jdk, so the proposed API solution sounds good to me. "Easier" means without meddling with the harness, and making the jdk updatable. Boris
On Sat, 27 Jun 2020 at 08:33, Geertjan Wielenga <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > If Azul were to distribute a bundle of NetBeans with Zulu, i.e., the bundle > would be downloadable from an Azul domain, would we as a community be > interested in doing the work of putting that bundle together? > > It would be a process that would take place once a year, with our NetBeans > LTS together with whatever the current LTS of Zulu is at that time. > > We in the NetBeans community would create and test the bundle, and would > approve it as a community — sometime after the NetCAT process since the > binaries would need to exist for the bundle to be created, so maybe simply > by approving the bundle in a thread, not as an official vote thread since > the bundle would not be an Apache release, of course. > > Potentially, Azul could create a plugin for updating Zulu after it’s been > installed — and put that plugin into our Plugin Portal. > > This would solve our problem of not having a JDK vendor that provides the > complete NetBeans out of the box experience. The bundle would be called > “Apache NetBeans Zulu Bundle” and we’d point to it from our download page, > with statements that it is not an Apache release, etc. > > With my three hats “Apache”, “NetBeans”, “Azul” on at the same time, this > sounds good. > > Thoughts on this? > > Thanks, > > Gj > -- Boris Heithecker Dr. Boris Heithecker Lüneburger Str. 30 28870 Ottersberg Festnetz: +49 4205 315834 Mobil: +49 170 6137015
