On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 12:02 PM, Carl Mosca <carljmo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am not certain I understand Tim's comments because I was not around for > the "great debate of 2004". > > If the process used to compress a dmg image makes jar files unusable, why > was NetBeans 8.x pkg compressed that way or was it not? > > I suspect he was trying to say the pkg installer (which it now does) is > preferred but the compression comment confused me. > > On the other hand, there was another comment about the installation > location. > > The reason I asked in advance of creating anything, was so that I would not > step on any toes or get blasted after the fact. So much for that...thanks > all for the warm welcomes. :) > :-) You'll always get blasted and thanked in equal measure here. :-) I think it's awesome what you've done and maybe you can provide your solution as a pull request, after creating an issue and then using that issue number in the commit message, such as in most cases here: https://github.com/apache/incubator-netbeans/pulls Gj > > Carl > > On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 4:34 AM Geertjan Wielenga > <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com.invalid> wrote: > > > Really cool. I'm going to try it out, though Tim's comments re Mac > > installers is something to think about. > > > > Gj > > > > > > On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 9:04 AM, Carl Mosca <carljmo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > If you're willing to try the package installer, clone this fork: > > > https://github.com/carljmosca/incubator-netbeans on a Mac. > > > > > > Follow the setup for the build requirements then run "ant > package-macos" > > > > > > This should do a build followed by the creation of a Mac package > > installer. > > > > > > On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 2:36 AM Geertjan Wielenga > > > <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com.invalid> wrote: > > > > > > > Yes, if you can create installers, that would be wonderful! > > > > > > > > I’ve seen about three different Mac OSX installers around so far. > > > > > > > > Please don’t wait, create installers if you can, and write back here > > with > > > > instructions when you’ve done so. > > > > > > > > Gj > > > > > > > > On Wednesday, August 8, 2018, Carl Mosca <carljmo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > I am wondering if anyone is working on these. I would like to help > if > > > > > needed. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Carl J. Mosca > > > > > > > > -- > Carl J. Mosca >
