neilcsmith-net commented on PR #6496:
URL: https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/6496#issuecomment-1740601562

   OK, I'm going to merge this so that I can trigger a build to stage and open 
a pre-vote PR for testing.
   
   > In an ideal world this all would not exist and the libs would be built 
with the main build
   
   Yes, but this would rely on a) having cross-compiling on all OS to build for 
all OS, or b) accepting that the end user can only build the primary source 
release for their own architecture.  Well, there's also c) - allow a mix of 
building and downloading, but that causes a whole bunch of chicken and egg 
things out of sync - we've been there with the Windows launcher and it's a 
release headache I'd rather not repeat.
   
   TL;DR - there is no "ideal world" here, just different compromises. :smile:


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