Hi Neil, very very thanks for sharing your work and your explainations. That motivates me a lot to make my motion-analysis and data-aquisition tools open source and as binary builds available.
best Oliver > Hi All, > > The other week I was working on the latest release of PraxisLIVE, my > other IDE project based on top of the NetBeans platform. Rather than > building releases locally as in the past, I decided to work on forking > the community installer GitHub workflow to handle this instead. I > thought I'd share a link in case it's of use to other platform > projects using, or thinking of using, the Apache NetBeans NBPackage > tool in this way. > > https://github.com/codelerity/praxislive-installers > > Like the community installer workflow, the logic to download > NBPackage, the application and the JDK is in a single source Java > file. The links and hashes for the downloads are in the > build.properties file. The source file then executes NBPackage with > the expected configuration from the config folder. > > The workflow is set up to use secrets for macOS signing if configured. > Windows signing is still handled locally because Azure trusted signing > is not available in Europe at the moment - the workflow could be > easily adapted to add this. > > The config files use various features of NBPackage that exist mainly > for the platform, and are not used by the community IDE installers. > Icons are changed on all OS. A custom version of the InnoSetup > template is used on Windows, and custom Info and entitlements on macOS > (templates can be exported from NBPackage using --save-templates). The > macOS configuration also updates the glob pattern of JARs that will > have their native files deep signed to pass notarization. The various > Linux packages use the package.merge property to include additional > files from the linux_merge folder in the package (in this case a > launcher for the underlying PraxisCORE actor system). > > Feel free to make use of any configuration from the above repo as a > starting point, and if there's anything missing in NBPackage for your > use case, please ask or open an issue at > https://github.com/apache/netbeans-nbpackage > > 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
