Re: How to upgrade from netbeans directly

2020-12-21 Thread Alan
On 2020-12-21 16:40, Thomas Kellerer wrote: Alan schrieb am 21.12.2020 um 20:58: More confusing and more than a bit of a pain. At the risk of being repetitive, does anyone know how to persist window layouts and open files across version updates? Even a clue would help. I typically just keep t

Re: How to upgrade from netbeans directly

2020-12-21 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Alan schrieb am 21.12.2020 um 20:58: More confusing and more than a bit of a pain. At the risk of being repetitive, does anyone know how to persist window layouts and open files across version updates? Even a clue would help. I typically just keep the old user dir. I only delete the "var/cach

Re: How to upgrade from netbeans directly

2020-12-21 Thread Laszlo Kishalmi
Also you can go with the Snap package, which will be auto upgrade whenever the new version is out. When that come out the new version will report on startup if you would like to import the previous workspace which is usually safe. If I'll have some time, I'd experiment with Snaps auto directory

Re: How to upgrade from netbeans directly

2020-12-21 Thread Alan
More confusing and more than a bit of a pain. At the risk of being repetitive, does anyone know how to persist window layouts and open files across version updates? Even a clue would help. Although I'm sure it's idiosyncratic, I've got a really specific setup typically with 50-100 open files a

Re: How to upgrade from netbeans directly

2020-12-21 Thread Neil C Smith
On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 at 18:47, Scott Palmer wrote: > I think a better option would be to have a button to upgrade to a new release > when one is available. Definitely a message or button here would be good, and needs to be LTS aware ... There is already a notification for new releases - "just" n

Re: How to upgrade from netbeans directly

2020-12-21 Thread Scott Palmer
And it has always caused this confusion... We should at least add a message in the update UI to tell users to do a manual download and install to move to a new release. I think a better option would be to have a button to upgrade to a new release when one is available. It should also be explic

Re: How to upgrade from netbeans directly

2020-12-21 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
It has always been a requirement to install NetBeans from scratch when you want to use a new release. Gj On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 at 13:30, Marco Ambu wrote: > Thanks, is that because of the way I installed netbeans or any other > reason like linux or the Check for updates feature is not working and

Re: How to upgrade from netbeans directly

2020-12-21 Thread Marco Ambu
Thanks, is that because of the way I installed netbeans or any other reason like linux or the Check for updates feature is not working and not meant to? In that case is it going to be removed? On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 at 11:53, Geertjan Wielenga < geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Yes, you ne

Re: How to upgrade from netbeans directly

2020-12-21 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
Yes, you need to reinstall whenever a new release is released. Gj On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 10:41 AM Marco Ambu wrote: > Hi, > > I installed netbeans 12.1 in linux (don't remember if I used the zip file > or the shell installer). > Anyway I see 12.2 is available but running "Check for updates" i

How to upgrade from netbeans directly

2020-12-21 Thread Marco Ambu
Hi, I installed netbeans 12.1 in linux (don't remember if I used the zip file or the shell installer). Anyway I see 12.2 is available but running "Check for updates" in my Netbeans says that there are no updates available. Is that supposed to work or do we need to re-install it every time a new r