Re: A NetBeans Packager tool?

2021-10-18 Thread Neil C Smith
On Sat, 11 Sept 2021 at 19:38, Neil C Smith wrote: > So, I've spent some time over the last few weeks sketching something > out, and moving over / templating out some stuff from my platform Ant > usage. The intention is to take a NetBeans IDE or platform zip, an > optional Java runtime, and confi

Re: A NetBeans Packager tool?

2021-09-23 Thread Neil C Smith
Hi Oliver, Sorry for the delayed follow up - was away for a while and catching up. Thanks for your thoughts ... On Tue, 14 Sept 2021 at 08:32, Oliver Rettig wrote: > I would suggest to create a cwiki-page maybe under How-to-Articles or is it a > better place? I think a place to collect all the

Re: A NetBeans Packager tool?

2021-09-14 Thread Oliver Rettig
Hi Neil, > On Sat, 11 Sept 2021 at 22:43, Oliver Rettig wrote: > > I am still using the netbeans buildin installing stuff but it was always > > difficult for me to figure out how to implement specific needs. Main > > disadvanatage for me was need of a jre installed on the pc to use the > > instal

Re: A NetBeans Packager tool?

2021-09-13 Thread Lars Bruun-Hansen
On Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 11:43 PM Oliver Rettig wrote: > > I am still using the netbeans buildin installing stuff but it was always > difficult for me to figure out how to implement specific needs. Main > disadvanatage > for me was need of a jre installed on the pc to use the installer and the lac

Re: A NetBeans Packager tool?

2021-09-13 Thread Neil C Smith
On Sat, 11 Sept 2021 at 22:43, Oliver Rettig wrote: > I am still using the netbeans buildin installing stuff but it was always > difficult for me to figure out how to implement specific needs. Main > disadvanatage > for me was need of a jre installed on the pc to use the installer and the lack >

Re: A NetBeans Packager tool?

2021-09-13 Thread Neil C Smith
On Mon, 13 Sept 2021 at 08:55, Luff, Chris wrote: > Hey Neil, I love solving problems and producing our own may be the path of > least resistance, but I wonder if working with the existing JPackage so it > closer matches our needs may be a good choice. I’m sure NetBeans cannot be > the only sol

Re: A NetBeans Packager tool?

2021-09-13 Thread Luff, Chris
Hey Neil, I love solving problems and producing our own may be the path of least resistance, but I wonder if working with the existing JPackage so it closer matches our needs may be a good choice. I’m sure NetBeans cannot be the only solution that needs to solve these issues? JEP-8208405[1] in

Re: A NetBeans Packager tool?

2021-09-11 Thread Neil C Smith
On Sat, 11 Sep 2021, 21:43 Scott Palmer, wrote: > What were the problems with using jpackage? It seems like it would be > fairly simple to take an App > Image and JRE image and do this for you. > JPackage is great, but basically does too much. We have our own launchers, so we don't need that fea

Re: A NetBeans Packager tool?

2021-09-11 Thread Oliver Rettig
Hi Neil, I am still using the netbeans buildin installing stuff but it was always difficult for me to figure out how to implement specific needs. Main disadvanatage for me was need of a jre installed on the pc to use the installer and the lack of a tool to includes the app-icons in the executab

Re: A NetBeans Packager tool?

2021-09-11 Thread Scott Palmer
What were the problems with using jpackage? It seems like it would be fairly simple to take an App Image and JRE image and do this for you. Scott > On Sep 11, 2021, at 2:38 PM, Neil C Smith wrote: > > Hi, > > The other week I was re-looking at packaging options for NetBeans (and > RCP). I

A NetBeans Packager tool?

2021-09-11 Thread Neil C Smith
Hi, The other week I was re-looking at packaging options for NetBeans (and RCP). I experimented with using JPackage, which you might have seen on the NetBeans twitter. Bit hacky though, involving two Java processes, and the lack of some packaging options I want, a few odd issues, and the lack of