Re: Re: Installers -- making them official for 11.1

[Eric Bresie <eb...@gmail.com>]

This is probably an enhancement request or an activity for a future time but with the more recent changes in Java I seem to recall with the jlink and/or jpackage coming that it is possible to no longer require a JDK directly be installed but build a package with a subset of items for inclusion in the java applicable and avoid the need all together. Although there may still be some licensing constraints on some of that depending on what is used.

Eric Bresie
Ebresie@gmail.com
> On May 30, 2019 at 8:34:25 AM CDT, Geertjan Wielenga <ge...@apache.org> wrote:
> But there's several more, e.g., off the top of my head, Pivotal has one and
> there's also JetBrains Runtime.
>
> Gj
>
> On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 3:28 PM Eduardo Quintanilla <eq...@bnext.mx>
> wrote:
>
> > I would recommend reading the Java Is Still Free document
> >
> > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nFGazvrCvHMZJgFstlbzoHjpAVwv5DEdnaBr_5pKuHo/edit?usp=sharing
> >
> > From that document
> >
> > Free Builds for Linux, Windows, Mac, etc. [OpenJDK, no commercial support]:
> >
> > AdoptOpenJDK (commercial support also available by IBM and jClarity)
> > https://adoptopenjdk.net/
> >
> >
> > Amazon Corretto
> > https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/
> >
> >
> > Azul Zulu (commercial support also available)
> > https://www.azul.com/downloads/zulu/
> >
> >
> > BellSoft Liberica JDK (commercial support also available)
> > https://bell-sw.com/java.html
> >
> >
> > Oracle OpenJDK build
> > http://jdk.java.net/
> >
> > SapMachine
> > http://sapmachine.io
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Eduardo Quintanilla
> > Software Developer
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Geertjan Wielenga <ge...@apache.org>
> > Sent: jueves, 30 de mayo de 2019 6:00 a. m.
> > To: dev <de...@netbeans.apache.org>
> > Subject: Re: Installers -- making them official for 11.1?
> >
> > Sure, though the question will be 'which JDK'. :-) There's about a dozen
> > of them right now.
> >
> > Gj
> >
> > On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 12:52 PM Patrick Musembi <pa...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Can we also provide a link for downloading jdk if there is no jdk
> > > installed mainly because of non-java developers.
> > >
> > > On Thu, May 30, 2019, 13:22 Geertjan Wielenga <ge...@apache.org>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Excellent, thank you for this feedback.
> > > >
> > > > More from others, welcome.
> > > >
> > > > Gj
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 11:55 AM mike james <
> > > mike.james@infomaxgroup.co.uk
> > > > >
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi
> > > > > I'm new so tell me if I'm doing something wrong/odd.
> > > > >
> > > > > Can I just say that while experienced programmers have no problems
> > > > > with "unzip this" and so on NetBeans is a very attractive IDE for
> > > > > the complete beginner and an installer lowers the barrier to them
> > > > > getting started with NetBeans in particular rather than
> > > > alternatives.
> > > > > I has to be frictionless - well as much as possible.
> > > > > I've tried the installer on Windows and it works very nicely.
> > > > > Constructive comment - the final screen might say something more
> > > > > to
> > > tell
> > > > > the newbie where to find NetBeans- Windows does a good job of
> > > > > hiding it unless you know its on the
> > > desktop.
> > > > > mikej
> > > > >
> > > > > On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 9:34 AM Geertjan Wielenga
> > > > > <geertjan@apache.org
> > > >
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Hi all,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Now that the installer sources are in our GitHub repo:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > https://github.com/apache/netbeans/tree/master/nbbuild/installer
> > > > > >
> > > > > > ...thanks to Reema's work here:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/1052
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Is there anything preventing us from including the installers as
> > > > > > convenience binaries as part of the 11.1 release, instead of
> > > > > > having
> > > > them
> > > > > > available as experimental installers in her repo here:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > https://github.com/rtaneja1/incubator-netbeans/tree/installer-bin-11vc
> > > 4/nbbuild/installer/binaries
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Hope so, would be excellent -- the missing official installers
> > > > > > is
> > > > > probably
> > > > > > our most requested feature. :-)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Gj
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
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