Excellent. Should we do this on a branch, so that we can do one merge of
all these changes at the same time into main?

Gj

On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 7:40 AM, Jaroslav Tulach <[email protected]
> wrote:

> Here is the plan to get rid of downloading binaries from
> hg.netbeans.org/binaries:
>
> Let's download them from central Maven repository!
>
> The support is already in the build harness and for example this module is
> already downloading the JAR from a Maven repo:
> https://github.com/apache/incubator-netbeans/blob/
> master/o.n.html.ko4j/external/binaries-list
>
> We just need to go through all the binaries-list files and replace the
> current JAR references with the Maven syntax:
>
> MD5Hash groupId:artifactId:version
>
> That's the plan. Volunteers welcomed.
> -jt
>
> 13. 9. 2017 v 21:10, Geertjan Wielenga <[email protected]>:
>
> > PS: These binaries are all listed in the SGA as being excluded from the
> > donation and in each case, in the SGA, the related license is mentioned
> too.
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 9:00 PM, Geertjan Wielenga <
> > [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>> On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 8:48 PM, Major Péter <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I cloned the repo today and tried to run NetBeans (ant && ant tryme) on
> >>> OSX and I had various compilation related exceptions and NPEs with a
> >>> Maven project. Almost every code completion request resulted in an
> >>> exception popup..
> >>> Anyone had a similar experience with the donated code? Is this NetBeans
> >>> version meant to be stable at this point?
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> More details please, step by step to reproduce this. I'm also on OSX,
> >> happy to try to reproduce if you tell me specifically what,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>> On a slightly different topic:
> >>> Ant downloaded various binary files from hg.netbeans.org/binaries
> during
> >>> the build. Are these also Apache licence friendly binaries, or are they
> >>> magic binaries that the build needs to bring in to actually get a
> >>> working NetBeans release. Are these binaries (well their source) going
> >>> to be donated & built via Apache infrastracture in the long term?
> >>>
> >>
> >> No, they are not donated, they are needed by the build. We will be
> >> auditing them, will need to check whether we can use them under Apache
> or
> >> not, quite some work involved here.
> >>
> >> Gj
> >>
>

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