Oh, I saw this comment on https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/State+of+the+Apache+NetBeans+Installers
This debate was had once about 14 years ago - and the decision to go with > .pkg installers on Mac OSX was made for this reason: There were a lot of > "NetBeans is unusably slow" reports on OSX. > The reason? A LOT of users never unpacked the .app - they were running it > directly from the mounted, compressed .dmg image. It turns out that's not > that unusual. > Random access Java classloading does not play nicely AT ALL with the > compression used for .dmg images. > I strongly recommend not repeating that mistake. I believe NetBeans should detect if it's being executed from a DMG and warn the user about it. I did have an user with an utterly broken install due to AppTranslocation. Still, using a DMG is the way to go imho. --emi On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 6:32 PM Emilian Bold <emilian.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I can share the CoolBeans installers but they are no big deal, not > sure if they are good enough for NetBeans... > > My macOS DMG uses a variation of the Carl J. Mosca script does > (Carl's script has a bug as it assumes the location never changes; I > would make a PR if I wouldn't have changed so much stuff). > > My Windows installer uses InnoSetup and has again a very basic script, > based on what Stephen Cumminger shared on the mailing list a while > back. It's very basic, but gets the job done of copying the files, > creating shortcuts and providing an uninstaller. > > I believe these are actually enough for end users, but NetBeans always > had a much more fancy installer, with Glassfish and many other things. > Especially for macOS I always wanted a clean drag-and-drop DMG, no > package with a wizard. > > I think it's important that both the DMG and the EXE are digitally signed. > Windows particularly has very scary warning messages for unsigned EXEs. > > --emi > > > > On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 5:14 PM Geertjan Wielenga > <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com.invalid> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > Tried to gather different threads together in the below to get a thorough > > overview of where and why we are where we are: > > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/State+of+the+Apache+NetBeans+Installers > > > > Thanks, > > > > Gj >
