Meant for the list, but the reply button in Gmail only sends it to the original poster and I forgot to fix the address. I think the RC's should have a different bundle ID and name to prevent accidentally installing over official versions.
Cheers, Scott On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 5:07 AM Neil C Smith <neilcsm...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 10 Aug 2023 at 16:33, Scott Palmer <swpal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Worked for me on iMac Retina 5k, 27-inch, 2017 > > 4.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 > > Ventura 13.4.1 (22F82) > > > > Noticed that it doesn't install in a NetBeans subfolder of Applications > nor include the version number in the name. which I see was intentional > based on reading the issue. I have no issue with that, but I think we need > to make it clear in the release notes - specially if installing a beta or > RC will overwrite your previous release version! > > Thanks for checking! Was that email meant to be a direct reply to me > rather than the list? > > On the beta / RC question - well, we don't have betas anymore. And > we've rarely had a macOS installer for RCs in the past. Now we have a > more sustainable way to produce we might do them more frequently. As > you can see from the command line in the original post, it's easy to > specify bundle ID and name, so we can certainly produce isolated > packages. A few people in earlier testing had commented they prefered > in-place upgrading. We should perhaps consider a secondary bundle ID > for RC so they can be installed alongside though? Doing so will also > differentiate between released and unreleased versions. > > Best wishes, > > Neil >
