One question: Is there a technical reason why we provide an executable "Installer" file (pkg file) on MacOS, rather than an application bundle that the user can drag to the Applications folder? The latter seems to be the standard way that applications are distributed on MacOS.
-- Eirik -----Original Message----- From: Neil C Smith <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 9, 2022 5:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Discuss] Netbeans 13 macOS Installer On Wed, 9 Mar 2022 at 09:10, John Mc <[email protected]> wrote: > Another option, which Neil recommended to me but I'll admit has taken > me a while to see how much better it might be(too much going on > elsewhere) is to create a second distpreparation zip file, and include that > in the vote. Actually, that wasn't what I suggested, but I think it sounds better. I'd suggested just a zip with the changed files and instructions. Having an updated version of the distpreparation.zip as a whole sounds better. There's nothing compiled in there, right? And it's everything required to turn the binary zip into the installer? Any option that works with the already released zip and doesn't require doing a new source release as a whole gets my vote. If we do that, we end up with different implementation versions in the macOS installer. 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
