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Christian Lenz commented on NETBEANS-51:
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But yes the release cycles are horrible for years.
> Major plugin release cycles should be independent from the core
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> Key: NETBEANS-51
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-51
> Project: NetBeans
> Issue Type: Wish
> Reporter: Adrien Crivelli
> Labels: planning, release, roadmap, workflow
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> NetBeans releases versions roughly every year. Unfortunately that means that
> major plugins, such as the one for PHP support, does not get updated for 12
> months or more. So when a major PHP version is available (7.1), NetBeans
> users still have to wait for several months before being able to benefit from
> new features, despite the fact that the plugin was already updated (5 months
> ago, and counting).
> Of course we can use dev build in the meantime, but unfortunately those dev
> builds are far from being stable. I regularly get Java exceptions and
> everything seems to be slightly slower than a production release.
> This lead to a lot of frustration for end-users, as can be [seen
> there|https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=268317]. And I believe
> this is not specific to PHP plugin, but must also happens for pretty much all
> other language/frameworks that are not Java related.
> The solution seems simple to me. Since NetBeans already is architectured with
> plugins in mind and those are already auto-updated. We only have to allow
> plugin author to release their plugins at their own pace.
> In fact this is exactly how it is done for the plugin to add support for
> TypeScript (https://github.com/Everlaw/nbts). Its release cycle is not tied
> to NetBeans and it's working great.
> So I am kinda wondering why does PHP need to be tied to NetBeans release ?
> what are the advantage for end-users and/or developers ?
> [[email protected]], do you know whether it would be technically possible
> to release PHP as a independent plugin more often ?
> It seems to be a purely organisational issue. And if it could be fixed with
> the move to Apache, that would be awesome.
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