Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: > 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. > I can only assume the Posse is unbothered by the first item (who cares about being Mac-like, Windows-like, or whatever in a cross-platform IDE?!?) and didn't experience the other problem. > - 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. > I'd have to agree here. The way a number of NetBeans version control modules work is brain-dead in this regard. They finally did the right thing with Subversion by having an optional module through which you can just bundle and install a Subversion. Having an advanced option to use a different one is great, but unless you're dealing with a VCS client that isn't free (e.g. ClearCase) or is forcibly "global" to the machine (e.g. ClearCase), making all would-be VCS users go find, install, and configure an appropriate VCS client is not cool -- most especially if they don't know or care about that VCS tool (e.g. Mercurial) except in so far as they want to do serious perusal of OpenJDK, NetBeans, or OpenSolaris sources. [I think Sun bet on the wrong horse and should drop Mercurical for Git as well, but that's another matter.]
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