I'm missing something here - there is nothing even difficult about building a.pkg - the format is well documented and all doable with command line tools that can be automated with any build tool. It's not rocket science.
Why the assumption that we can't possibly do an installer? Apache having a bad rep for desktop software isn't an excuse - it's not like we have to make things crappier to fit in. -Tim On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 4:23 PM Will Hartung <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 1:04 PM, Tim Boudreau <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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. > > > > > 99.9% of people who have that experience will NOT show up onn the mailing > > list here. They'll simply use something else - perhaps blogging about the > > experience, or writing something on social media, or telling friends > "don't > > use NetBeans". > > > I was just thinking about this, and, while there may be others, Apache > isn't that well known for it's "desktop" software. > > However, there's Apache DS Studio. > > Here's a link to their download page. > > https://directory.apache.org/studio/download/download-macosx.html > > I mentioned this simply to show that others are doing it within the Apache > eco-system, so we should be able to also. > > I don't know if this is enough to mitigate the performance problems of not > using an installer. > -- http://timboudreau.com
