Hi,
> I'm not sure we link them in from anywhere?
They are linked.
Click on "download" at NB home page and you're here:
https://netbeans.apache.org/download/nb15/
First download link is netbeans-15-bin.zip.
We, here at FormDev Software, use both.
netbeans-15-bin.zip is used to auto-extract some JARs needed to check
binary/source compatibility of JFormDesigner plugin.
We also use it on Linux.
netbeans-15-source.zip is used for debugging JFormDesigner plugin.
Development of JFormDesigner is mostly done in Eclipse and we have
launch scripts to debug JFormDesigner plugin in all supported NetBeans
versions.
I think netbeans-15-bin.zip is useful for people that can not (or do not
want) use the installers. Simply extract it and run it.
Also useful for Linux users.
netbeans-15-source.zip could be useful for NB platform development.
The easiest way to find out whether they are widely used would be to
have some download numbers...
Karl (DevCharly)
On 20.10.2022 12:28, Neil C Smith wrote:
Hi All,
Every release we include source and binary zip artefacts for the
platform alone. eg.
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/netbeans/netbeans-platform/15/
Even the source zip is treated as an artefact of the main release.
It's not voted on separately, and I don't know how many other people
bother to check them?
They seem like an added complexity to the release process with minimal
benefit (and a few issues). I'm not sure we link them in from
anywhere? I'm not sure if there's much of a need for them?
So, does anyone have a good argument or use case for continuing to
include these? Otherwise, I plan not to include them as artefacts in
the next (NB16) release vote.
Thanks,
Neil
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