Well, most of them are test data. No impact there other than losing a test
case. The important ones are the binary Windows launchers and the profiler
libraries.


--emi

On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 1:48 AM, Geertjan Wielenga <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Further and more specific info -- attached is the list of binaries from
> the reviewed code for the 1st code donation.
>
> The plan is for these to be removed since (1) from the Oracle side, we'd
> need to inspect inside of each of these prior to donating them and (2) from
> the Apache side, these could not be distributed, since they are binaries.
>
> I'll be working through the list to categorize each of these and evaluate
> their priorities, e.g., immediately one can see without much work that the
> binaries apply mostly to 'apisupport', 'autoupdate', 'db', 'extbrowser',
> 'lib.profiler', 'o.n.bootstrap'.
>
> We need to establish which of these would prevent a NetBeans build from
> completing, for example, which might apply to all of them.
>
> We need to establish which ones are needed for (1) building NetBeans and
> which ones are needed (2) during installation and which ones (3) after
> NetBeans has been installed and (i) in order for NetBeans to start up
> versus (ii) for some specific feature that maybe not everyone is used.
>
> We also need to find a place where all these binaries can be stored and
> accessed.
>
> Feel free to look at the attachment and help to evaluate the content based
> on the above and other categories.
>
> Gj
>
>
> On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 2:02 PM, Wade Chandler <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> On May 7, 2017 6:13 AM, "Geertjan Wielenga" <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> 3. Binaries -- all kinds of code is found inside binaries, e.g., launchers
>> and installers, which we'd need to review before donating them to Apache,
>> though donating them wouldn't make sense since Apache doesn't distribute
>> binaries. We'll need to exclude binaries from the donation and make them
>> available in some other way, i.e., via an organization supporting Apache
>> NetBeans, some would need to be downloaded for building NetBeans and
>> others
>> during installation of NetBeans.
>>
>>
>> With the sources for the binaries, they can be built and placed into Maven
>> zip archives which can be extracted during the builds. I have archives
>> such
>> as this for things at work such as wrappers for the Chrome Web Driver for
>> locally running functional web app tests. Open Table does this for
>> embedded
>> postgresql too.
>>
>> Wade
>>
>
>

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