Nice. Thanks Tor.
On Jul 28, 8:45 pm, TorNorbye <tor.nor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes. You can see which feature clusters are activated in the plugin
> manager - and you can deactivate them there too.
>
> -- Tor
>
> On Jul 28, 5:37 pm, Bill Robertson <billrobertso...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I've seen that in action, but what makes me wonder is if I experiment
> > with a feature that I don't use again is it then enabled every time I
> > start? Or are the features activated when projects that reqire them
> > are loaded? Just curious.
>
> > Thanks!
>
> > On Jul 28, 2:46 pm, TorNorbye <tor.nor...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > As of NetBeans 6.7 there isn't a penalty anymore for downloading the
> > > Giant release.
>
> > > In the past, there was. If you downloaded the Everything/Kitchen Sink
> > > release, hundreds and hundreds of plugins were all enabled, adding a
> > > bunch of menu items to the menus, hooking up action enablement based
> > > on your selection etc.
>
> > > We noticed from download statistics that more than half of all
> > > downloads were for the big release even if most people use only
> > > smaller portions. Therefore, in 6.7, a new on-demand architecture was
> > > implemented. Now most functionality is completely disabled (not even
> > > loaded, so no penalty). Only when you hit certain entry points (load
> > > project, create project, attach debugger, and a few others) does it
> > > ask if you want to activate that feature cluster and then it goes and
> > > actually enables it.
>
> > > In short, go ahead and get the full release - you've got the bandwidth
> > > and diskspace, and you won't get penalized performancewise for it
> > > anymore.
>
> > > -- Tor
>
> > > On Jul 28, 10:56 am, Ryan Waterer <aguitadel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > I completely agree with Bill. It is the easiest way to get what you
> > > > want
> > > > and not have to worry about any extras that could potentially cause
> > > > problems.
>
> > > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Bill Robertson
> > > > <billrobertso...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > > > > With NB, its best to download the smallest package and add to it
> > > > > through the plugin manager (tools->plugins). However, I think
> > > > > downloading the JavaFX version of netbeans is probably equivalent to
> > > > > starting with the base and then adding JavaFX.
>
> > > > > Jan, I don't know if is widespread agreement on good formatting for
> > > > > JavaFX source code. The first (?) version of the plugin would format
> > > > > code, but I didn't like the choices they made. It would also do it w/
> > > > > o asking, which was doubly bad. Don't know if they disabled it for
> > > > > the bugs or for style.
>
> > > > > On Jul 28, 12:39 pm, Matt <mattgrom...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > So if I want JavaFX I need the 90M one, but then I can't use it for
> > > > > > regular Java? And if I get the 300M one I can do Java but not
> > > > > > JavaFX?
>
> > > > > > I'm not very familiar with Netbeans, which one should I get for
> > > > > > JavaFX
> > > > > > and Java but I don't need Ruby or C?
>
> > > > > > On Jul 27, 1:29 pm, Jan Goyvaerts <java.arti...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > > >http://www.netbeans.org/downloads/
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