When they were written (I believe by Trung Ducks Tran in '99 or so), the reason was to avoid opening a console window on Windows.
No idea if that's still an issue. -Tim On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 9:20 PM Scott Palmer <[email protected]> wrote: > I wonder why any native launchers aren’t simply the standard launchers > produced by the javapackager from the JDK. > > I don’t think it is worth maintaining a NetBeans-specific launcher. > > Scott > > > > On Feb 24, 2018, at 5:15 PM, Emilian Bold <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > If you have C / native code experience there's right now another thread > talking about the NetBeans native launchers on Windows. > > > > There are few people with such experience and you might be of great help > there. > > > > See what that is all about. > > > > --emi > > > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > > > > On 20 February 2018 4:30 PM, Riktam <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Hello Netbeans Developers, > >> > >> I'm looking around for a while on Your mailing list and wonder, how i > can contribute. > >> > >> Now i will follow the advice from Geertjan and check > >> > >> https://github.com/apache/incubator-netbeans/pulls > >> > >> .....It would help if you would add comments > >> > >> May i introduce myself: > >> > >> I learned electronics but now be an real legacy programmer - with Java > as my passion. > >> > >> Starting with Assembler / C, followed by Uniface, sometimes PHP and > JavaScript projects. > >> > >> But I could participate in some Java backend / EE projets. > >> > >> All other Java programming takes place at home. > >> > >> Kind regards, > >> > >> Rik > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > > > -- http://timboudreau.com
