Is the Zulu JDK the “full” one with JavaFX modules? I like to use that as it simplifies JavaFX development considerably. Though I’m not likely to use an installer that bundles a JDK with NB, I think many students/beginners would. They would benefit from having things “just work”
Scott > On Dec 15, 2021, at 12:45 PM, Neil C Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
