After a bizarre experience with Eclipse's Windows installer, it dumped 350 meg into the user AppData folder in addition to where it was actually installed, I am questioning installers for Windows. I solved my Eclipse problem by just downloading the zipped version. NetBeans does not require any special treatment for Windows. It can be unzipped and a shortcut created. I assume it will no longer ship with Glassfish, a good thing, so its not necessary to deal with the GlassFish installation which is only to unzip it into a folder anyways. When NetBeans starts up it will create whatever folders it needs in the User folder. Yes, an installer is nice but all it should do on the Windows platform is unzip NetBeans in the folder of choice and add a shortcut. What about the Java Packager or is that not usable due to licensing?
Ken -----Original Message----- From: Carl Mosca <[email protected]> Sent: August 10, 2018 7:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Installers Well first off is MacOS dmg because that's where I code mostly. Secondly I like the idea of both an RPM and a deb for those Linux distros but I get the "yum install" "apt-get" thing to it's just as high a priority for me. And yes, I know Windows has to be addressed a well but that's my order of interest at this point. On Windows, I would have to look because I don't know what the msi/exe preference is these days. Carl On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 7:10 AM Geertjan Wielenga <[email protected]> wrote: > Which kinds of installers, i.e., for which operating systems, do you > want to create installers? > > Indeed, makes sense to me the idea of them being created during the build. > > Gj > > On Friday, August 10, 2018, Carl Mosca <[email protected]> wrote: > > > OK but I probably should have been a little more specific about the > > coordination part of my question. > > > > I am assuming that building the installers would, at some point, be > > part > of > > the build process. > > > > I believe Jenkins and ant are currently used. Is there any history > > or preference with solutions to create the installers I should be aware of? > > > > Thank you, > > Carl > > > > On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 2:36 AM Geertjan Wielenga > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Yes, if you can create installers, that would be wonderful! > > > > > > I’ve seen about three different Mac OSX installers around so far. > > > > > > Please don’t wait, create installers if you can, and write back > > > here > with > > > instructions when you’ve done so. > > > > > > Gj > > > > > > On Wednesday, August 8, 2018, Carl Mosca <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > I am wondering if anyone is working on these. I would like to > > > > help if needed. > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Carl J. Mosca > > > -- Carl J. Mosca
