Hi, The other week I was re-looking at packaging options for NetBeans (and RCP). I experimented with using JPackage, which you might have seen on the NetBeans twitter. Bit hacky though, involving two Java processes, and the lack of some packaging options I want, a few odd issues, and the lack of some cross-platform support got me thinking whether an NBPackage tool might be a better approach!
So, I've spent some time over the last few weeks sketching something out, and moving over / templating out some stuff from my platform Ant usage. The intention is to take a NetBeans IDE or platform zip, an optional Java runtime, and configuration. Then it builds the required "image" and passes it to the native packaging tool. Currently got AppImage and InnoSetup mostly working, and working on tidying up .deb and macOS options. MSI would be good too. It might provide a useful option for both platform developers, and for third-parties who want to create IDE installers with JDK included. Interested in thoughts on this. Work in progress PR at https://github.com/apache/netbeans-tools/pull/47 README at https://github.com/apache/netbeans-tools/blob/4ffd265475d69fca62b0fa8e4a79db31ffc9f2ad/nbpackage/README.md Thanks, Neil --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
