On 27.02.25 11:49, Neil C Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 at 04:12, Michael Bien <mbie...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I can't really help there much, but we have community packages linked which >> are able to reliably install NB+Runtime JDK on windows. So this is >> technically a solved problem (for now) IMO ... We cant rely on the existence >> of community packages since they may disappear. > There will be no community installers from Codelerity after NetBeans > 25. There is some discussion ongoing about whether they move > somewhere else.
understood. In case all efforts fail, it would be good to be able to point windows users to *something* on the download page. E.g winget or something like that (assuming someone updates the previously mentioned package config in time). >> mac: >> >> - mac is covered by our .pkg artifact, right? > We would need another PMC member to take this on. This is partly > related to the above, and partly that it happens that the certificate > has now expired, which is the best time to pass this over. > > Personally, I have doubts that a .pkg without JDK is the right > approach anyway. It is better IMO that a .pkg contains a JDK that is > signed and notarized as one artefact. I don't mind either way. I think both approaches are fine, while the all-in-one bundle with latest JDK is certainly the most convenient option for users. I think we should distinguish between installers and packages since there are different expectations of what they do. Offering a rpm for example is fine IMO since it essentially is a fancy zip with metadata and a (minimum) JDK dependency. The JDK is directly pulled from the OS repo by the package manager. NBI on the other hand is a program which would be the other end of the spectrum (and probably the worst case scenario since it itself needs a JDK to run). A package which does not bundle or declare a JDK dependency is somewhere in the middle. Some mac users might still prefer that over the zip. (I personally never used anything outside the cross platform zip, installers are just extra steps before i can run something) organized the NBI issues in an aggregator issue so that they are easier to find: https://github.com/apache/netbeans/issues/8281 best regards michael --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
