Re: Native packaging

2020-05-28 Thread Scott Palmer
The JavaFX deploy capability is the basis for NetBeans > native packaging. Thus the Netbeans packaging fails if NetBeans is run on a > later version of Java than 1.8. As you probably surely know, JavaFX has > moved to https://openjfx.io/ and also see > https://gluonhq.com/services/

Re: Native packaging

2020-05-28 Thread David Gradwell
Chris, The reason I mentioned JavaFX as problematic is that it is not included JDK releases beyond 1.8. The JavaFX deploy capability is the basis for NetBeans native packaging. Thus the Netbeans packaging fails if NetBeans is run on a later version of Java than 1.8. As you probably surely

Re: Native packaging

2020-05-28 Thread Chris Olsen
David and All -- Having recently struggled through jpackage on both PCs and Macs, Netbeans support would be (IMHO) fantastic! If I were a developer, rather than a statistician writing software for my students' use, I would most certainly offer to assist. Now, however, I have an amateur's que

Native packaging

2020-05-28 Thread David Gradwell
I’ve put a suggested approach to fixing problems with native packaging described in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-4272?filter=-2 as a further comment on that issue and below: Apache NetBeans should be updated to use jpackage which is a part of OpenJDK 14.0.1 and works! An

Native packaging for Mac OSX now works with 12.0 beta 4 using Ant

2020-05-19 Thread David Gradwell
I had previously reported issues with native packaging on 12/0 beta 3 – see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-4272?filter=-2 If one applies the same fix as reported there (Change netbeans.conf to point to a JDK 1.8 installation home) I can report that for a suitable Ant java

Native Packaging fro Mac OSX gives typedef class com.sun.javafx.tools.ant.FXJar cannot be found

2020-03-16 Thread David Gradwell
I have successfully packaged applications for MacOSX under Netbeans 8.2 and am now moving to Apache NetBeans 11.3. It seems not to be possible to package an app for Mac OSX using Apache NetBeans.I get typedef class com.sun.javafx.tools.ant.FXJar cannot be found using the classloader AntClass

Native packaging with OpenJDK

2018-08-08 Thread R. Diez
OpenJDK 8 in the standard repository now. But I also need to test under Microsoft Windows. 2) Where is the best place to get OpenJDK binaries for Windows for NetBeans? Is there one with an auto-updater? 3) I know that NetBeans has native packaging, but that generates an installer. Is there a way to