As someone who grew up in South Africa, I think it would be awesome if there’d be a Zulu IDE, bundled with the Zulu JDK (rebranded and with a few Zulu-specific modules). :-)
Gj On Thu, 30 May 2019 at 18:44, Josh Juneau <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been using Azul Zulu JDK for a while now with no issues. Very > simple zip to extract. +1 for targeting Zulu as the free OpenJDK for use. > However, I'm not sure if we could necessarily "Package" it with Apache > NetBeans. If there is an OpenJDK that would be acceptable for packaging > along with the Apache NetBeans installer, then that would be the simplest > solution for a beginner. > > On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 11:21 AM Damjan Jovanovic <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > The other problem with .ZIP is that it doesn't preserve permissions bits > > for *nix, breaking Maven and several other built-in tools. > > > > On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 11:55 AM mike james < > [email protected] > > > > > 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 <[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 > > > > > > > > > > -- > Josh Juneau > [email protected] > http://jj-blogger.blogspot.com > https://www.apress.com/us/search?query=Juneau > <https://www.apress.com/index.php/author/author/view/id/1866> >
