Hi, The lack of native binaries supporting Apple Silicon (eg. profiler and terminal) is becoming more and more of an issue, and costing us users. I assume that is something we wish to address?! And incidentally, while we're at it, if you're a NetBeans PMC member or committer using it on macOS regularly on either Apple silicon or x86_64, your input and testing through this would be very appreciated. I've got access to an M1 machine myself, but it's not what I use day-to-day.
We have a PR updating the build scripts for the profiler binaries at https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/6494 I think we have something for the terminal support somewhere too, although it might need a little work. In some ways, that's the easy part - we need a better way to handle releasing these for consumption in the main IDE build. The Windows launchers are currently in a separate repository, and released via Maven central - https://github.com/apache/netbeans-native-launchers We could use a similar approach. However, that might be more difficult for a cross-OS range of binaries (and with the profiler header generation)? We have a GitHub workflow file for building profiler binaries already at https://github.com/apache/netbeans/blob/master/.github/workflows/native-binary-build-lib.profiler.yml That has the benefit of cross-OS building, including for macOS where we don't have an ASF Jenkins option currently. The workflow appears to be missing a source bundle that we could use for voting purposes, but could be adapted to generate that in an initial stage (we don't want the full NetBeans sources!). We could then look to release the binaries via dist.apache.org for consumption in IDE builds? Given there is not a huge amount of time before freeze for NB20, we could perhaps look to only update the binaries for macOS at this time, moving to ASF builds of the rest for NB21? Thoughts? Best wishes, Neil --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.apache.org For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
