Hi I'm new so tell me if I'm doing something wrong/odd. Can I just say that while experienced programmers have no problems with "unzip this" and so on NetBeans is a very attractive IDE for the complete beginner and an installer lowers the barrier to them getting started with NetBeans in particular rather than alternatives. I has to be frictionless - well as much as possible. I've tried the installer on Windows and it works very nicely. Constructive comment - the final screen might say something more to tell the newbie where to find NetBeans- Windows does a good job of hiding it unless you know its on the desktop. mikej
On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 9:34 AM Geertjan Wielenga <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Now that the installer sources are in our GitHub repo: > > https://github.com/apache/netbeans/tree/master/nbbuild/installer > > ...thanks to Reema's work here: > > https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/1052 > > Is there anything preventing us from including the installers as > convenience binaries as part of the 11.1 release, instead of having them > available as experimental installers in her repo here: > > > https://github.com/rtaneja1/incubator-netbeans/tree/installer-bin-11vc4/nbbuild/installer/binaries > > Hope so, would be excellent -- the missing official installers is probably > our most requested feature. :-) > > Gj >
