On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 2:15 PM, Jan Lahoda <[email protected]> wrote:
> My personal opinion: seems the main issue here is that the nbexec expects > to get userdir (and cache dir) from the product/application launcher. If > that's good or bad, that I guess is a question to NetBeans Platform > architects, but this (as far as I can tell) is not really anything new in > this release. But to me personally, if one can create a platform > application, and that application will run, the current state does not seem > too terrible. Exactly -- and this was my original point: does it matter whether or not the NetBeans Platform starts, so long as applications built on top of it can start? But also, I'm concerned that when we go to the IPMC with a vote thread, one of them is going to have a problem starting the NetBeans Platform for the reasons encountered by Chris and Emilian and then the release will be rejected. So, what's the solution? Gj > AFAIK we are talking about an alpha release, about thing that > probably exists for a long time and if that does not affect applications > based on the platform, is it really a show stopper. > > Jan > > On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Jaroslav Tulach < > [email protected]> > wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, November 15, 2017, Geertjan Wielenga < > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Well, the question would be why it is useful. > > > > > > > > And what does it prove -- and is it a requirement for release. > > > > > > > What does it show if the launcher isn't working? That you cannot start > > platform! > > > > When I wrote the installation proposal > > https://platform.netbeans.org/articles/installation.html I described > that > > nbexec shall be there and shall be used to launch the platform. I don't > > think much changed since then. > > > > Releasing something without a way to start it doesn't make it very > useful, > > in my opinion. My 2 Kč > > -jt > > > > > On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 9:49 AM, Jaroslav Tulach < > > > > > > [email protected] > > > > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: > > > > > > > >> 2017-11-14 20:32 GMT+01:00 Geertjan Wielenga < > > > >> [email protected] > > > >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected] > ');>>: > > > >> > > > >> > Calling the exe doesn’t really make sense. Who/why would one do > > this. > > > >> > > > > >> > > > >> Why it doesn't make sense? Calling platform/lib/nbexec.exe shall > start > > > the > > > >> platform. Calling platform/lib/nbexec does so on Unix. > > > >> -jt > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
