I am no expert on Snap - but my experience so far has been pretty uniformly bad, especially for development tools. The sandbox is great for allowing you to have just the basic dependencies you need, whatever the version, no more, no less, there in the box - until you need to reference something else that would normally exist as a package outside the box, then your scr*wed. Even tools like graphics packages, that in the linux world are more like full blown dev tools, just break when you go outside the limited use cases the packager thought of when they built the snap.
On 1 September 2020 05:34:46 BST, Laszlo Kishalmi <[email protected]> wrote: >Well, technically the runtime requirement of the IDE is to have a JRE. >It shall be enough if you are working on PHP, HTML or C++ projects. > >JDK is required for the Java stuff. What I'm planning is to get a Snap >distribution free from Apache and provide specific distribution >packages >for php, java(fx), javaee, maybe separate html and c++ all these with >JRE/JDK + JavaFX included... Somewhere along the road... > > >On 8/31/20 5:09 PM, Peter Blemel wrote: >> Hello World, >> >> I recently installed Apache Netbeans on several Ubuntu Linux >machines. In each case, the IDE couldn't create or open projects and >would stall at about 10% progress. As a long-time Netbeans user, this >was perplexing - especially given that I have a working Netbeans on one >of them (the others were fresh installs). From the IDE logs, I finally >figured out that Netbeans didn't think that I had a JDK installed. >> >> In one case it was right. The Ubuntu distro installs the JRE by >default, but not the JDK - and neither the installer or the IDE itself >prompts the user when it can't find the JDK. It's happy to install from >a JRE and silently fail later. In the other cases, I took the default >without thinking during installation. >> >> It's a face-palm moment for me, but I'm no stranger to "operator >error" moments at the end of the day. To someone who may be trying out >the Netbeans IDE and makes the same mistake, it could make them walk >away from Netbeans to another IDE. A dialog box saying "Where's yer >JDK?" would be useful. >> >> I'm really enjoying Netbeans 12, by the way. So far it hasn't given >me any grief and is fast and stable. >> >> Regards, >> Peter >> > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: >https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
