Hi, at this point in time I don't see any benefit in producing a bunch of different netbeans releases.
Am Freitag, den 19.04.2019, 21:57 -0400 schrieb Geertjan Wielenga: > > I think one of the coolest things we could do together is spin out a > separate distro specifically for PHP/JS type developers. what is the use case of that special distribution? > We had that before, it only requires JRE, not JDK, and would mean the > potential for a small snappy editor-focused tool (that as a side effect > could be interesting for users of a few comparable editors we can all think > of). The JRE is dead (for any Java version >= 9), at least that is what every java vendor is telling. You can either get a JDK from Azul or Red Hat and/or Amazon or stay in the past with JRE derived from JDK 8. If we could build a fully runnable NetBeans for people not interested in Java, ok, but neigther the ASF, nor Oracle do anything visible to resolve the big problem in the room: GPLv2+CPE at this time is not acceptable as a dependency for the ASF at this time (there is an open issue, that asks for moving GPLv2+CPE to Category B, but the ASF side raised concers and noone stood up to calm them. I don't think, that random comments will help here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-336 But comments from lawyers, preferable from oracle, could help to resolve this. Mayber it would be possible to reword the CPE to make it compatible with the ASFs requirements for dependencies. That would help _many_ apache projects, as many apache projects are Java projects and so implicitly depend on OpenJDK (if I'm not mistaken there is _no_ other open source Java distribution out there, that is even remotely as up-to-date and open as OpenJDK). Just my 2 cents. Greetings Matthias --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.apache.org For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
