On Tue, 22 May 2018 09:32:10 -0400 Emilian Bold <emilian.b...@protonmail.ch> wrote:
> Yes, once https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-417 is done > we might have another release. > > (Sadly) Apache releases source code, so binaries are just a > "convenience". > > Of course, our users don't want to build source code, they want an > installer. If they do, they can run something like Gentoo or Funtoo that builds everything from source. There was another way of building Netbeans from source. Mine is to the extreme, with all depedencies also built from source. This uses ant and pre-build jars for dependencies, not updated yet for 9 https://gitweb.gentoo.org/dev/fordfrog.git/tree/dev-java https://gitweb.gentoo.org/dev/fordfrog.git/tree/dev-util This is 100% from source not using ant or the NB build system/harness. Including ALL dependencies, no pre-built jars from anywhere. Only 9+ https://github.com/Obsidian-StudiosInc/os-xtoo/tree/master/nb-ide https://github.com/Obsidian-StudiosInc/os-xtoo/tree/master/nb-plugins Meta package builds nothing just pulls in other packages. Eventually will have USE flags to allow for a minimal NB install. Which people can make their own meta ebuilds just the same. Like if you develop an app off the NB platform and need some jars. You make something like this and only pull in and link what you need :) https://github.com/Obsidian-StudiosInc/os-xtoo/tree/master/dev-util/netbeans The neat thing about my from source is the live aspect, 9999 ebuilds. You could work with any part of the Netbeans tree from git. While the rest is from a packaged version/release. Not sure if that will help with development, but in theory at least it could. I also have a script that makes all system jars libraries in Netbeans for development. Including Netbeans own jars :) https://github.com/Obsidian-StudiosInc/gen2nblib P.S. Eventually I will move to a directory structure that will mimic a local Maven repo. Not sure if I can make it adaptable for git. Moving from away from /usr/share/<package-name>-<package-slot>/lib/*jar To a maven type directory structure with pom.xml's, etc. Just have to figure out version aspect. As I want 1 version of a given jar, and if something needs older, it uses a symlink. To reduce jar duplication and not have multiple versions of a jar on your system. Unless needed and slotted as its API or ABI changed. Plus have to go back and add group and artifact ids for mapping stuff. -- William L. Thomson Jr.
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