Excellent, thank you for this feedback. More from others, welcome.
Gj On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 11:55 AM mike james <mike.ja...@infomaxgroup.co.uk> wrote: > 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 <geert...@apache.org> > 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 > > >
