On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 3:14 AM, Geertjan Wielenga < [email protected]> wrote:
> I created two YouTube clips during the past few hours that show the > ZIP-based and Mac Installer-based approaches to installing Apache NetBeans: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am-7aa2hYgc > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8gdC7BBtbs > Thanks for these. As a Mac user, and, especially compared to using a DMG or a DMG with an installer, these techniques are both, simply, terrible. Functional, they "get it done", but terrible. The second example with the Mac OS bundle is a nice "how to", but that shouldn't be a "sanctioned" mechanism for random Mac users to download and install NetBeans. Having a shell based launcher that leaves a terminal window sitting around with logs spamming, isn't really an ideal solution. This would be much less of a big deal if NetBeans didn't offer a Mac install experience before, with the DMG and the Installer. A DMG with a Drag and Drop bundle would be a fine halfway step which should be doable on a non-mac system (i.e. a linux system). If anyone shows up on the mailing list complaining about performance, we can tell them to get rid of the image and copy the bundle over.
