Re: [DISCUSS] Merging back netcat@ into the dev@ mailing list

2018-06-27 Thread Brett Ryan
I wasn’t going to say anything but my sentiment is the same. We’ve functioned very well this way for a long time, and nothing is broken. There is a lot of work to be done with the transition, lets focus on what is important. I have been fairly quiet lately due to a new role in BigData and time

Re: Error updating version in pom.xml

2018-07-27 Thread Brett Ryan
I’m still using 8.2 in production, and I’ve never seen it replace the version. However, i use the following recommended strategy in maven projects. 1. Use variables for storing versions used in dependencies 2. Use the versions [1] plugin to identify new releases 3. Never use ranges, it’s not

Re: Error updating version in pom.xml

2018-07-28 Thread Brett Ryan
; Hope it helps, > > Gj > > > >> On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 7:12 AM, Brett Ryan wrote: >> >> I’m still using 8.2 in production, and I’ve never seen it replace the >> version. However, i use the following recommended strategy in maven >> projects. >&g

Re: Error updating version in pom.xml

2018-07-31 Thread Brett Ryan
s I always do if after the > > On 28 Jul 2018, at 19:11, Geertjan Wielenga > wrote: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGuvhDJ0f80 > > Above you see how it works in 8.2 and how it works in 9.0 vc3. > > Hope it helps, > > Gj > > > >> On Sat, Jul

Re: Installers

2018-08-14 Thread Brett Ryan
> On 15 Aug 2018, at 06:04, Tim Boudreau wrote: > > If anyone shows up on the mailing list complaining about performance, we >> can tell them to get rid of the image and copy the bundle over. >> > 99.9% of people who have that experience will NOT show up onn the mailing > list here. They'll

Re: Installers

2018-08-14 Thread Brett Ryan
On 15 Aug 2018, at 09:21, James Gosling wrote: >> On Aug 14, 2018, at 4:13 PM, Brett Ryan wrote: >> >> That was a little tongue in cheek, but I do get called a dino at work >> from the young ones ‘cos I’m an nb advocate, trying to sway them. > > I

Re: Installers

2018-08-12 Thread Brett Ryan
> On 13 Aug 2018, at 05:29, Neil C Smith wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Aug 2018, 16:23 Carl Mosca, wrote:. > >> I have not looked at pack2000, at least not lately. I will check it out. >> > > Hasn't pack200 just been deprecated!? > > Out of interest is there a preference / benefit for mac users

Re: Installers

2018-08-12 Thread Brett Ryan
Not quite. Remember the 8.2 installer did install Glassfish and tomcat for JEE versions and above. When it did this the servlet container was customised to match the users preferences. > On 11 Aug 2018, at 15:44, Scott Palmer wrote: > > The macOS “installer” should be nothing more than a disk

Re: Installers

2018-08-12 Thread Brett Ryan
> On 13 Aug 2018, at 06:27, Scott Palmer wrote: > > Really? Wow. Okay, another option (still preferable to a .pkg IMO) is to > simply distribute the application bundle in zipped form. As mentioned the issue with this is it could not be installed by the user globally, think of a

Re: Installers

2018-08-12 Thread Brett Ryan
d not allow user customisation. Given licensing that would mean tomcat is fine as it’s apache licensed, don’t know what will need to be done to bundle glassfish though. > Scott > >> On Aug 12, 2018, at 4:14 PM, Brett Ryan wrote: >> >> Not quite. Remember the 8.2 instal

Re: Installers

2018-08-13 Thread Brett Ryan
> On 13 Aug 2018, at 19:22, Neil C Smith wrote: > >> On Mon, 13 Aug 2018 at 01:59, Tim Boudreau wrote: >> >> That's not a great user experience for Mac OSX users - it kind of >> telegraphs "we don't actually care about Mac OSX users". >> > > I admit to using my mac as little as possible

Re: Installers

2018-08-14 Thread Brett Ryan
> On 14 Aug 2018, at 20:14, Geertjan Wielenga > wrote: > > I created two YouTube clips during the past few hours that show the > ZIP-based and Mac Installer-based approaches to installing Apache NetBeans: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am-7aa2hYgc > >

Re: Installers

2018-08-14 Thread Brett Ryan
> On 13 Aug 2018, at 22:11, Neil C Smith wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Aug 2018 at 12:42, Brett Ryan wrote: >>> On 13 Aug 2018, at 19:22, Neil C Smith wrote: >>> I admit to using my mac as little as possible for testing purposes, >>> but I really don't get why a

Re: Apache NetBeans Platform for Beginners

2018-07-23 Thread Brett Ryan
This is fantastic news Walter and this is a brilliant book! > On 20 Jul 2018, at 19:57, Walter Nyland > wrote: > > Hi all, > > I’m one of the auhors of leanpub.com/nbp4beginners. > > There’s continual interest in our book and clearly the Java desktop domain is > alive and well. Meanwhile,

Re: Welcome screen and 9.0 branding

2018-07-07 Thread Brett Ryan
Personally I felt after seeing the new splash screen I thought it looked brilliant but did feel the welcome screen detracted the freshness. It’s highly important that branding is consistent as this is the image of netbeans. I vote not to wait and have this come in ASAP. > On 8 Jul 2018, at

Re: Welcome screen and 9.0 branding

2018-07-07 Thread Brett Ryan
..@protonmail.ch.invalid >>>>> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> The designer we have should also help us with the welcome screen as we >>>>>> >>>>>> need some new color palette (right now the Welcome screen is usin

Re: ModuleInstall.restore() seems not to be called

2018-07-07 Thread Brett Ryan
That is a great book. Has it been continually updated for 8.x? I haven’t read since the original MEAP. > On 8 Jul 2018, at 05:09, Geertjan Wielenga > wrote: > > Really suggest you buy leanpub.com/nbp4beginners > > Gj > > >> On Saturday, July 7, 2018, Peter Nabbefeld wrote: >> >> >>

Re: Work Offline as a Global Setting for the Platform?

2018-09-22 Thread Brett Ryan
Well, the always online mentality is not a good one because many corporations block sites, we have the plugin portal blocked as an example. Some of us with poor internet also suffer a bad experience, it’s getting better here but I had dialup only 3 years ago, much of Australia still has bad

Re: [LAZY CONSENSUS] Which NetBeans domains to keep?

2018-09-25 Thread Brett Ryan
I’m thinking the same thing here. stageing.netbeans.org for one makes sense to me, all others should be subdomains also. > On 24 Sep 2018, at 23:21, Scott Palmer wrote: > > I’m curious as to why subdomains are not used instead? > > stage.netbeans.org > dev.netbeans.org > > I agree that .com

Re: Schliemann still alive?

2018-12-05 Thread Brett Ryan
I’d really like to help volunteer supporting the scala plugin to bring it to a first class supported language within the NetBeans IDE. I did start looking at it about 10 months ago but got by with the spark shell, I can’t remember exactly but iirc there was some dependency that had a specific

Re: [VOTE] Apache NetBeans Version Number: 2019.03

2019-01-26 Thread Brett Ryan
+1 > On 27 Jan 2019, at 14:44, Juan David Ferreira Granados > wrote: > > +1 > >> On 2019/01/26 03:51:19, Laszlo Kishalmi wrote: >> Dear all,> >> >> Well, it is time to finalize out version scheme for a while. There will > >> be three voting threads created on this topic with subjects:> >>

Re: Please use Rebase or Squash when Merging PRs on GitHub

2019-03-14 Thread Brett Ryan
I agree with this. It’s my practice that feature branches contain high level granularity, merges there squash to not pollute history. > On 13 Mar 2019, at 00:30, Laszlo Kishalmi wrote: > > Dear all, > > It would be great if we could use rebase for 1commit PR-s and Squash and > merge for PR-s

Re: Apache NetBeans Version Number - Future Dating

2019-01-28 Thread Brett Ryan
This sounds complicated and may add expectations :-/ > On 29 Jan 2019, at 08:16, Kenneth Fogel wrote: > > With IntelliJ and Eclipse using the year.month approach may I suggest doing > the same thing but instead of the release date we use the date it goes stale > such as when the next release

Re: What to do with features for EARs and EJBs?

2019-01-28 Thread Brett Ryan
It’s always a sensitive topic whenever considering to remove something, however; I am in favour for removing classic JavaEE support in favour of concentrating on modern java web technologies such as spring and Jakarta. It becomes an enormous task to support everything. We can always provide

Re: What to do with features for EARs and EJBs?

2019-01-28 Thread Brett Ryan
Tomas > >> On Mon, Jan 28, 2019, 22:24 Brett Ryan > >> It’s always a sensitive topic whenever considering to remove something, >> however; I am in favour for removing classic JavaEE support in favour of >> concentrating on modern java web technologies such as spring