Hi All, As Geertjan mentioned in another thread recently, we've been looking at producing alternative installers for Apache NetBeans with a bundled JDK, as well as a tool to assist with packaging the IDE or RCP applications with native packaging tools.
Having been a little waylaid(!) by 12.6 release process, I've been doing some work this week on NBPackage again. I've used it to build and publish some Windows and Linux installers via my company website at https://www.codelerity.com/netbeans/ These are obviously unofficial binaries, but are all packaging the official ASF zip release. There is an Inno Setup based installer including Azul Zulu JDK 17, DEB and AppImage for Linux x64 (again with Zulu), an AppImage for Arm / Pi with BellSoft Liberica JDK 17, and an any architecture DEB that uses system JDK. I'm working on macOS support in NBPackage at the moment. I'm also planning to ship RCP applications imminently using it, so will be testing and possibly tweaking for that purpose soon. Be great to get some feedback on the installers, as well as the approach, interest to other packagers / RCP devs, and on merging the tool into netbeans-tools repo soon via https://github.com/apache/netbeans-tools/pull/47 The build configuration and instructions for the installers, if you want to give it a go / tweak, is at https://github.com/codelerity/netbeans-installers Thanks and best wishes, Neil --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
