Hi Neil, So when I was testing the PR, I built the installer in the same way I normally for each release, do.
I can take the betas this week(maybe at the weekend) and do it again, and upload it to SVN for others to test it? Regards John On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 at 13:56, Neil C Smith <neilcsm...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi All, > > So, just before release freeze we had > https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/2563 merged as a fix for > https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/NETBEANS/issues/NETBEANS-5004 > I assume this means we'll try and have a native executable as the > launcher in the macOS installer option for 12.3? > > While I understand we likely need a native executable to fix this > issue, I remain of the view that it probably should be a stub calling > bin/netbeans, not duplicating its function and directly calling > platform/lib/nbexec I have deep reservations about that approach. > > Anyone testing the beta on macOS at the moment only has the zip build, > and is going to be running via bin/netbeans as normal. > > So, how do we test this, and make sure it's working properly for 12.3 > before we get out of beta? What are the platform considerations here? > And does the approach need review? > > Thanks and best wishes, > > Neil > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > > >
