Me, as a user of NetBeans e.g. I want to download NetBeans, start it and use it. I don’t want to configure stuff before I have to use it. I mean not like: Import plugins, set laf of NetBeans or add modules or whatever. I mean like to download stuff before like a lib or whatever.
The only Thing, what you should need is Java for NetBeans and this should be enough to download to use NetBeans. Or use the bündle. When I’ve missunderstood smth, please let me know. Cheers Chris Gesendet von Mail für Windows 10 Von: Jan Lahoda Gesendet: Dienstag, 14. November 2017 19:54 An: [email protected] Betreff: nb-javac Hello, As we should be looking at working on the Java IDE part now (vote for the platform release is running), I guess it is time to discuss what exactly we do with nb-javac. Most of the Java editing features depend on a library called "nb-javac" (features that are not Java related should work even without nb-javac), which is basically a fork of javac from OpenJDK (under GPLv2+CPE) with adjustments to make it work better inside NetBeans. This cannot be distributed with Apache NetBeans, but my understanding is that the user can add the library manually (and that the IDE can help with that): https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-279 So, I wonder what exactly do we do. There are two options: a) just provide guidance to the user to manually download the library and place it at the proper place. The current infrastructure mostly supports this, we just might need to have some better texts in the initial dialog about modules that cannot be enabled. b) attempt to more automatically download the library - this would need some more work I think, and I wonder if this is acceptable. (Also, there may be proxy issues, as the IDE would not be really started at that point.) Another aspect is from where to download the library: I assume we would need a reasonably stable place to which we could point the users. Are there any opinions on this? Thanks, Jan
