On Thu, 22 May 2025 at 15:39, Giles Winstanley <s...@snaq.net> wrote: > Just wondering if there's provision for a friends-of-apache-netbeans > build for macOS which doesn't bundle a JDK? Given the history of using > an already-installed JDK for running NB, and the reality that most > people using it will have 1+ JDKs already installed, it seems a good > option to have such a bundle available for download, rather than > needlessly occupy yet another 250MB+ of valuable drive space.
Short answer, no. The JDK in the installer is part of the package, not exposed globally, and is signed with the same certificate, hardened runtime entitlements, etc. as the rest of the IDE. Having a runtime in the package is a good thing, and cuts down on the support requirements. Other IDEs do the same as far as I know. If you want to run NetBeans on a JDK of choice then you can use the binary zip, or even build your own installer with/without JDK using NBPackage. Any installer without JDK could be distributed here directly, so it's unlikely it would come from FoAN. It would, however, need a PMC member with a desire to make it happen! I personally think it's a bad idea, which is why I personally stopped putting time into it. 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
