Did you manage to digitally sign the EXE on Linux? On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 at 13:13, Neil C Smith <neilcsm...@apache.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 at 10:17, Mark Phipps <mark.phi...@sucfin.com> wrote: > > It is NBI for several reasons: > > Thanks. Some thoughts inline. > > > 1. afaik it's the way that NetBeans IDE up to 8.2 was installed - why > > can't it be used for 10.0, 11.0 ....? > > It relies on the user already having a JRE/JDK installed, or bundling > one inside. As an Apache project, as things currently stand, we can't > bundle the JDK. We could potentially provide a more user-friendly > installer that provides an optional step to download a JRE/JDK to run > against, but at least that part of the installer can't be in Java for > obvious reasons. > > > 2. part of the NB code base > > Personally I think there are pros and cons to that. I'm shipping an > application that is still NB8.2 based at the moment, but already moved > away from NBI for other reasons. There are currently better featured > alternatives around, so another question is whether improving > NetBean's own solution or improving integration with third-party > solutions is a better use of our resources? > > > 3. baked into Ant - right click on an Ant-based NB Platform project and > > choose "Generate installers...." > > 4. baked into the nbm-maven plugin. I have invested a huge amount of > > time and effort working out how to tune the generation of installers > > from our maven/ant build system. > > 5. therefore all runs on linux, don't need Windows to generate a Windows > > (or Mac) installer. > > Your requirements are very similar to my own there. It's certainly > feasible to use InnoSetup on Linux and integrate into an automated > build pipeline. It does require executing via the Wine libraries, but > it's fairly easy to set up in Ant, can be run as part of Travis, etc. > > This is not specifically an argument in favour of InnoSetup - there > are other options that work cross-platform too, and may remove Wine > requirements, but it's the one that met my own RCP needs the best. > > > I don't want to use yet another technology like Innosetup (good as it > > may be), because I don't run any of my build pipeline on Windows. I > > don't want to learn Pascal scripting either. > > Neither do I, and haven't needed to resort to Pascal scripting as yet! > :-) I think we could even manage the JDK download and integration > without scripting it, but need to read up more on that. Certainly a > standard RCP with straight bundling can be done without any Pascal. > > Best wishes, > > Neil > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > > -- --emi
