Not quite. Remember the 8.2 installer did install Glassfish and tomcat for JEE versions and above. When it did this the servlet container was customised to match the users preferences.
> On 11 Aug 2018, at 15:44, Scott Palmer <swpal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The macOS “installer” should be nothing more than a disk image with the > application bundle. It should not be a .pkg file that might require admin > privileges as it would be a drag and drop install. The user should be able to > drag the app bundle wherever they want. > > Scott > >> On Aug 10, 2018, at 6:54 PM, Carl Mosca <carljmo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I work in a place where you need admin rights to install on Windows as well >> but that's a policy. >> >> As far as the MacOS goes, it's based on BSD. >> >> Therefore if /Applications is owned by root:wheel (or something similar >> that's not the current user), you need privileges to "su or sudo" in order >> to complete the installation process. That is to say, the filesystem is >> requiring the elevated access which in my opinion is a good thing. >> >> One could/should be able to install in his/her home directory and not need >> such access and I have seen apps take that approach as well. >> >> Carl >> >>> On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 5:57 PM Will Hartung <willhart...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 1:10 PM, Kenneth Fogel <kfo...@dawsoncollege.qc.ca >>>> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> 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. >>>> >>> >>> For some reason that I don't understand, and perhaps someone could explain, >>> the installer for MacOS requires Administration privileges. >>> >>> Being that it, too, is essentially a "zip file" (it's an application >>> bundle), I never really understood why it needs admin privs to install. >>> >>> Maybe it's some Mac specific thing. >>> >> >> >> -- >> Carl J. Mosca > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
