Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 30.05.2018, 08:59 -0500 schrieb Glenn Holmer: > On 05/30/2018 06:18 AM, Josh Juneau wrote: > > +1 to including a "Driver" plugin update center. > > Couldn't we just get them from Maven Central (with the appropriate > license confirmation dialog)? Do we already have code that can do that? > What does it take to set up an update center? Do we have plans for how > to do that moving forward with e.g. NetBeans plugins and patch updates? > > > It would be great if NetBeans could get away from packaging the > > drivers, as it freezes the release in time unless one decides to > > overwrite the JAR files that ship with the release. > > Yes, that's my biggest objection to bundling the drivers; you'd have to > hunt down all the latest versions for every NetBeans release (although > presumably the NetCAT db tribe could do that). Of course, an update > center would have the same issue (is there a way to ask Maven Central > for the latest driver?).
I would try to use Maven Central to update drivers. In fact there is an issue open for this: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-170 So if someone whats to work on this - feel free to do so. Important is, that it must be clear for the user, that the files are not part of netbeans, but are seperatedly downloaded and licensed (as nbjavac explicitly show GPL on installation). I have not yet analysed the samples on maven central, but I hope, that they pubished artifacts hold license information in the POM and that could be displayed. BUT: NETBEANS-170 and NETBEANS-870 don't exclude each other. Updating the postgresql driver is a good starter task, NETBEANS-170 will take longer and will be more involved. So if you want to update the postgresql driver I'm good with it, if you want to tackle NETBEANS-170, that is also a good idea. Greetings Matthias --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
