On 14.11.22 15:30, Neil C Smith wrote:
On Sat, 6 Aug 2022 at 10:02, Neil C Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
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.
I know alien, although got to be 15+ years since I used if for
anything. It's still in Ubuntu repos.
For the community deb this would be better done by adapting the
NBPackage deb task though - ...
Just to follow up on this conversation, we now have a PR for NBPackage
from Javier Llorente to do just this.
https://github.com/apache/netbeans-tools/pull/54
great contribution!
Couple of minor things to address, but that should enable a DEB and
RPM without JDK, and therefore distributable by ASF, if we want?
Sure. Installing SW from those packages is more common than custom
installers on linux - in my experience at least. Since NB doesn't have
one for linux right now, this might be a nice alternative.
This could potentially even help some package maintainers to keep
NetBeans up to date in their repositories.
-mbien
I've also been looking at some changes and tidying up of the NBPackage
project so we could have a release vote on it - something I'd like to
do either way at some point, but particularly before suggesting we use
it for a binary release of NetBeans here.
https://github.com/apache/netbeans-tools/pull/56
Any thoughts on this?
Best wishes,
Neil
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