On 05.08.22 13:39, Neil C Smith wrote:
Otherwise we point people to the Zip bundle, Snap, or community provided DEB instead?
yeah lets do that. You know we even started to add workarounds to netbeans itself because the installer started to set suboptimal paths which caused entirely unrelated seeming issues much later to users.
Time to move on unless someone *really* wants to work on it for the next release.
Incidentally, the DEB without JDK could be distributable via ASF, but maybe we'd get complaints about the lack of RPM, etc.?! :-)
there used to be a tool called alien which could convert between several package formats. But I can't even find it in the arch repo right now.
In any case, linux has too many package formats to cover from our perspective. But there is a whole community of package maintainers which do just that: (re)package sw for distributions.
e.g if I open the package manager of manjaro linux i can install NetBeans 14 from there (I never did, i just use the zip since NB 5, no matter on what system). Nobody of us here did this, right? (If yes then thanks!)
In my opinion: providing an archive for linux is sufficient, esp if your software can run right out of that extracted archive. Double clicking a script on linux and expecting it to do the right thing is super weird to me - I can't remember when I did this the last time :)
https://repology.org/project/netbeans/versions regards, michael
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