Came in late in the discussion so not sure what is presently in use for Netbeans but figured I’d mention.
Looking at the Tomcat BUILDING.txt, the ant build script (see release target for dependencies) it appears to use an open source installer (see https://nsis.sourceforge.io/Main_Page ) as part of its build process. On none Windows environments it also uses Wine to build with. Eric Bresie ebre...@gmail.com > On March 19, 2019 at 7:25:45 AM CDT, Geertjan Wielenga > <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com.invalid> wrote: > Hey all, > > https://archive.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-9/v9.0.0.M1/bin/ > > Tomcat releases installers for Windows, somehow, let's follow however they > do that in terms of how to release it. > > Gj > > On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 12:33 PM Geertjan Wielenga < > geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > Yes, how do we get this resolved, ask our mentors or open a legal issue or > > what do you suggest? > > > > Gj > > > > On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 at 12:31, Neil C Smith <neilcsm...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 at 11:18, Geertjan Wielenga > > > <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com.invalid> wrote: > > > > Surely > > > > the sources of that installer themselves are not required to be part of > > > the > > > > release too? > > > > > > That (or a separately voted on source release / third-party > > > dependency) would exactly be my expectation, yes. IMO it should > > > always be possible for anyone to take the source release and build the > > > installers entirely from source without relying on anything that > > > hasn't been released. That's my interpretation from both the Apache > > > guidelines and how other FLOSS projects work, but the easiest thing > > > would surely be just to get clarification one way or another whether > > > this would be breaking Apache policy so merging can be considered if > > > required? > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > >
