Interesting idea, but with some consequences: I do not think it would be a good idea to have multiple variants under different urls. I would increase the maintenance for the netbeans.org website and would split the overview. so one installers site please.
The burden of choice is pushed to the end user, which can be good or bad. The combination of nb +jdk should be reflected in the installers name, eg apache-netbeans-29-zulu-fx-25.exe as an example. It would be fair to any provider of the jdk anyway. At the moment the process of packaging and signing is fully automated, we nog longer down and upload to local Macs, so having extra combinations is little extra work at the time of deployment. There will be some extra, hopefully one time configuration effort though. There is of course still a selection to be made. Personally I am impartial to any combination. For students a combination with fx might be helpful, but that may involve extra work because of the additional binaries that are in the fx versions. met vriendelijke groet Pieter van den Hombergh Op ma 23 feb 2026, 22:52 schreef Geertjan Wielenga < [email protected]>: > No objection from my side to not use Azul’s OpenJDK. Though giving choice > is good, but it could be any choice — i.e., Codelerity provides Temurin, > good for FoAN to provide something different, e.g., BellSoft could be good > as well. > > Gj > > On Mon, 23 Feb 2026 at 22:34, Pieter van den Hombergh < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > There is a separate zulu jdk that includes javafx, but that is not the > one > > included in the FoAN installers. > > > > met vriendelijke groet > > Pieter van den Hombergh > > > > Op ma 23 feb 2026, 21:50 schreef Geertjan Wielenga < > > [email protected]>: > > > > > It doesn’t need to be. Maybe the difference is size is built-in JavaFX. > > > > > > Gj > > > > > > On Mon, 23 Feb 2026 at 21:48, Pieter van den Hombergh < > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > The difference is the packaged jdk. > > > > Codelerity uses tempting, FoAN uses the Azul Zulu variant of openjdk. > > > > Other than size and licence I do not known of any technical > > differences, > > > > because I have not studied them. > > > > I was told that FoAN is somehow bound to Zulu, so I complied. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > met vriendelijke groet > > > > Pieter van den Hombergh > > > > > > > > Op ma 23 feb 2026, 20:57 schreef Peter Hull <[email protected]>: > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 23 Feb 2026 at 19:49, Pieter van den Hombergh > > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > At the time codelerity installers were on line the FoAN installer > > > page > > > > > was > > > > > > not linked to from the NetBeans.org download page. So probably no > > > > > downloads > > > > > > for NB28 from the FoAN site. > > > > > > > > > > Thanks Pieter. What I meant was - when NB29 installers are > available > > > > > from both FoAN and Codelerity, will there be any practical > difference > > > > > between them? > > > > > (As I understand it from Neil's message Codelerity will continue > > > > > releasing alongside FoAN) > > > > > > > > > > Peter > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > > > > > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
