Re: Re: State of the Apache NetBeans installers

2019-02-05 Thread Eric Bresie
Regarding JRE/JDK... I thought one of the driving things about “modules” in new java release (I believe Java 11ish) was to make it so that a modularize jre could be created with only elements needed being included and the. That “custom” JRE would be embedded with the product. So would linking b

Re: State of the Apache NetBeans installers

2019-02-05 Thread Neil C Smith
On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 at 11:46, Emilian Bold wrote: > Did you manage to digitally sign the EXE on Linux? No, that's one thing I haven't looked at yet. As far as I know it's feasible though. Did a fair bit of reading around Electron packaging when making a choice of what to go with - various discus

Re: State of the Apache NetBeans installers

2019-02-05 Thread Emilian Bold
Did you manage to digitally sign the EXE on Linux? On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 at 13:13, Neil C Smith wrote: > On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 at 10:17, Mark Phipps 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

Re: State of the Apache NetBeans installers

2019-02-05 Thread Neil C Smith
On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 at 10:17, Mark Phipps 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 o

Re: State of the Apache NetBeans installers

2019-02-05 Thread Emilian Bold
> I believe that NBI has legs, at least as a way for NB Platform applications to fill the gap left by the demise of Java Web Start. As I have said before, I don't understand well how the NBI system works (yet - I am trying), but I can't see any good reason why it should be abandoned. I suspect ver

Re: State of the Apache NetBeans installers

2019-02-05 Thread Neil C Smith
On Sat, 2 Feb 2019 at 22:57, Wade Chandler wrote: > Too, it seems we could provide an installer that downloads the JDK for the > end user, but that also can create and output a bundled installer for that > end user; they would be building and distributing it. They could then place > that on any se

Re: State of the Apache NetBeans installers

2019-02-05 Thread Mark Phipps
Hi Neil, It is NBI for several reasons: 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 ? 2. part of the NB code base 3. baked into Ant - right click on an Ant-based NB Platform project and choose "Generate installers" 4. baked int

Re: State of the Apache NetBeans installers

2019-02-05 Thread Neil C Smith
On Mon, 4 Feb 2019, 16:15 Mark Phipps Whatever solutions you decide are best for installing NetBeans IDE > itself, application providers need a way to bundle a JRE within the > installer. I presume that everyone is still minded to use the NBI > framework to accomplish this? > Personally, not in t

Re: State of the Apache NetBeans installers

2019-02-04 Thread Mark Phipps
of where and why we are where we are: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/State+of+the+Apache+NetBeans+Installers Thanks, Gj www.sucdenfinancial.com Sucden Financial Limited, Plantation Place South, 60 Great Tower Street, London EC3R 5AZ Telephone +44 203 207 5000

Re: State of the Apache NetBeans installers

2019-02-03 Thread Emilian Bold
from a > DMG. It isn’t worth it when the problem is so easily avoided. > > Scott > > > On Feb 2, 2019, at 12:25 PM, Emilian Bold > wrote: > > > > Oh, I saw this comment on > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/State+of+the+Apache+Net

Re: State of the Apache NetBeans installers

2019-02-02 Thread Scott Palmer
n > 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&qu

Re: State of the Apache NetBeans installers

2019-02-02 Thread Emilian Bold
> My understanding is you could create a bundler that is clear to spell out it is a bundler, and is just installing "Apache NetBeans + AdoptOpenJDK" as an example as long as it is just a redistribution of unchanged parts. I haven't seen this spelled out as such, although it's been mentioned like t

Re: State of the Apache NetBeans installers

2019-02-02 Thread Wade Chandler
On Sat, Feb 2, 2019, 15:43 Emilian Bold < > > If Apache gets more lenient / clear on bundling I could also create a > 'vanilla NetBeans' package with no bits changed except the additional JDK. > Although I suspect the general idea is for Oracle or Amazon to do some > JDK+NetBeans bundle release an

Re: State of the Apache NetBeans installers

2019-02-02 Thread Emilian Bold
> A non-Java NetBeans installer that can optionally download a JDK and configure it for the IDE (not necessarily installed globally) might be something we can explore. It's somewhat odd to download a big installer then have the installer download the big JDK... but it's the best we can do and prob

Re: State of the Apache NetBeans installers

2019-02-02 Thread Neil C Smith
On Sat, 2 Feb 2019, 20:50 Emilian Bold > Whereas we need to provide an option to install a JRE/JDK as part of the > installation process. Or do you have that? > > I don't have / need that (since I can just bundle the JDK, no?). > Yes. Just wondered. > > For starters just relying on users manuall

Re: State of the Apache NetBeans installers

2019-02-02 Thread Emilian Bold
> Well, the key thing as far as I remember is that you're bundling the JDK? Correct. > Whereas we need to provide an option to install a JRE/JDK as part of the installation process. Or do you have that? I don't have / need that (since I can just bundle the JDK, no?). For starters just relying o

Re: State of the Apache NetBeans installers

2019-02-02 Thread Neil C Smith
On Sat, 2 Feb 2019, 17:58 Emilian Bold I can share the CoolBeans installers but they are no big deal, not > sure if they are good enough for NetBeans... > Well, the key thing as far as I remember is that you're bundling the JDK? Whereas we need to provide an option to install a JRE/JDK as part of

Re: State of the Apache NetBeans installers

2019-02-02 Thread Carl Mosca
hink 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 Ge

Re: State of the Apache NetBeans installers

2019-02-02 Thread Emilian Bold
2, 2019 at 5:14 PM Geertjan Wielenga > > 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: > > >

Re: State of the Apache NetBeans installers

2019-02-02 Thread Emilian Bold
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 un

Re: State of the Apache NetBeans installers

2019-02-02 Thread Carl Mosca
o 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 > >

Re: State of the Apache NetBeans installers

2019-02-02 Thread Emilian Bold
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/State+of+the+Apache+NetBeans+Installers > > Thanks, > > Gj - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail

Re: State of the Apache NetBeans installers

2019-02-02 Thread Laszlo Kishalmi
Improved the Linux Section. On 2/2/19 7:08 AM, Geertjan Wielenga 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

State of the Apache NetBeans installers

2019-02-02 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
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

State of the Apache NetBeans installers

2019-02-02 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
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