As of NetBeans 6.7 there isn't a penalty anymore for downloading the Giant release.
In the past, there was. If you downloaded the Everything/Kitchen Sink release, hundreds and hundreds of plugins were all enabled, adding a bunch of menu items to the menus, hooking up action enablement based on your selection etc. We noticed from download statistics that more than half of all downloads were for the big release even if most people use only smaller portions. Therefore, in 6.7, a new on-demand architecture was implemented. Now most functionality is completely disabled (not even loaded, so no penalty). Only when you hit certain entry points (load project, create project, attach debugger, and a few others) does it ask if you want to activate that feature cluster and then it goes and actually enables it. In short, go ahead and get the full release - you've got the bandwidth and diskspace, and you won't get penalized performancewise for it anymore. -- Tor On Jul 28, 10:56 am, Ryan Waterer <[email protected]> wrote: > I completely agree with Bill. It is the easiest way to get what you want > and not have to worry about any extras that could potentially cause > problems. > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Bill Robertson > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > With NB, its best to download the smallest package and add to it > > through the plugin manager (tools->plugins). However, I think > > downloading the JavaFX version of netbeans is probably equivalent to > > starting with the base and then adding JavaFX. > > > Jan, I don't know if is widespread agreement on good formatting for > > JavaFX source code. The first (?) version of the plugin would format > > code, but I didn't like the choices they made. It would also do it w/ > > o asking, which was doubly bad. Don't know if they disabled it for > > the bugs or for style. > > > On Jul 28, 12:39 pm, Matt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > So if I want JavaFX I need the 90M one, but then I can't use it for > > > regular Java? And if I get the 300M one I can do Java but not JavaFX? > > > > I'm not very familiar with Netbeans, which one should I get for JavaFX > > > and Java but I don't need Ruby or C? > > > > On Jul 27, 1:29 pm, Jan Goyvaerts <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >http://www.netbeans.org/downloads/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
