I did notice that they are in a way different build scenarios, but I worry 
mostly about building with JDKs other than 8 (LTS or not, even if we do support 
LTS only). Mostly I think it inefficient, having redundant info. I would 
propose, and even make a PR if you are ok with it, that the section on the 
Netbeans 12.1 download page link back to the other one with a small 
modification to include both use cases, both cloning from the repo and the 
official release zip.

How does that sound? Should I go ahead?

Thanks,

Emilio G.C.

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From: Neil C Smith <neilcsm...@apache.org>
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2020 01:04
To: Emilio G.C. <rarei...@outlook.com>
Cc: NetBeans Mailing List <users@netbeans.apache.org>
Subject: Re: [WEBSITE][BUILD INSTRUCTIONS] Difference between build instructions



On Thu, 17 Sep 2020, 21:20 Emilio G.C., 
<rarei...@outlook.com<mailto:rarei...@outlook.com>> wrote:
https://netbeans.apache.org/download/nb121/nb121.html

https://netbeans.apache.org/download/dev/index.html


Maybe I missed it, but I believe the main instructions should be consistent if 
they are repeated more than once on the website, or otherwise just appear on 
the dedicated section - the second link.

They're not instructions for quite the same thing, but you're right that the 
build instructions should be as on the /dev page. I noticed this when 
publishing the NB 12.1 page but forgot to update, sorry.

The difference in results between the two instructions is minor, though. But 
the zip is also probably more useful if you want to build for use rather than 
working on IDE development, where you'd use a git checkout anyway.

Best wishes,

Neil

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