On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 9:03 PM, Will Hartung <willhart...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 3:14 AM, Geertjan Wielenga < > geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com.invalid> wrote: > > > I created two YouTube clips during the past few hours that show the > > ZIP-based and Mac Installer-based approaches to installing Apache > NetBeans: > > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am-7aa2hYgc > > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8gdC7BBtbs > > > > Thanks for these. > > As a Mac user, and, especially compared to using a DMG or a DMG with an > installer, these techniques are both, simply, terrible. > > Functional, they "get it done", but terrible. > > Excellent. So, where is your DMG solution, please? Can you stop sending e-mails for the moment and create the solution that you're missing? Yes, maybe you don't know how to do that, though maybe you can invest the time that you would have spent in replying to this in learning how to do what it is that you believe should be done? Thanks, Gj > The second example with the Mac OS bundle is a nice "how to", but that > shouldn't be a "sanctioned" mechanism for random Mac users to download and > install NetBeans. > > Having a shell based launcher that leaves a terminal window sitting around > with logs spamming, isn't really an ideal solution. > > This would be much less of a big deal if NetBeans didn't offer a Mac > install experience before, with the DMG and the Installer. > > A DMG with a Drag and Drop bundle would be a fine halfway step which should > be doable on a non-mac system (i.e. a linux system). > > If anyone shows up on the mailing list complaining about performance, we > can tell them to get rid of the image and copy the bundle over. >
