Even after the obscure segmentation fault I mentioned in another thread, netbeans is unusable on mac os x. I don't understand why the posse sings netbeans' praises so, especially considering that most of them have macs.
here's a list of things that bugged the hell out of me in the first 2 minutes: - the install isn't mac-like. It creates a directory in /Applications and then puts in a single .app file in there. Why not just dump this in /Applications directly? That's what every other mac app does. Not a show stopper, but shows lack of trying on the mac platform. - Nothing is remembered. Everytime I boot netbeans, it'll ask me to register. I can click 'never register' until I'm blue in the face. No luck. This is a show stopper. - hg isn't shipped with mac os x, and it isn't in netbeans either. Why not? It's open source. Python's already there, at least on os x leopard, so it can't be that hard. Even if you do install hg, netbeans can't find it. You have to manually go to the terminal, create a .MacOSX dir in your home file, and then an environment.plist, add / usr/local/bin there, and *LOG IN AGAIN*. Even technical users shouldn't be subjected to that kind of abuse. When your product takes over an hour to get working properly, you're doing it wrong. Verdict: Netbeans on mac is a toy project. Use if you are the type of person that likes to write their own XF86Config files. Which, if you own a mac, probably means nobody. Come on guys. These problems can't be all that hard to solve, and I really want netbeans to succeed. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
