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Stripped down version of [[NetBeans]] IDE is available as packages in Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva, Gento and maybe other distributions. Some of these packages used to be maintained by [[Sun]], some by community. However it is not that common an upstream project (like [[NetBeans]]) deals with this kind of packaging itself. Usually some real user of the actual [[Linux]] distribution shall care. Why? Because only real users of the distribution can properly integrate the application into the distribution. For example, while I using Mandriva, I was packaging [[NetBeans]] for Mandriva myself. | Stripped down version of [[NetBeans]] IDE is available as packages in Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva, Gento and maybe other distributions. Some of these packages used to be maintained by [[Sun]], some by community. However it is not that common an upstream project (like [[NetBeans]]) deals with this kind of packaging itself. Usually some real user of the actual [[Linux]] distribution shall care. Why? Because only real users of the distribution can properly integrate the application into the distribution. For example, while I using Mandriva, I was packaging [[NetBeans]] for Mandriva myself. | ||
- | However I don't use Mandriva anymore, so I am looking for a new maintainer. Also my colleagues who maintained packages for Ubuntu and Fedora decided to give up as well. It is a shame, but as said earlier, real users of the distributions shall care. Do you care? If you use some [[Linux]] distribution and you want to package [[NetBeans]] IDE for it, sign for it [[ | + | However I don't use Mandriva anymore, so I am looking for a new maintainer. Also my colleagues who maintained packages for Ubuntu and Fedora decided to give up as well. It is a shame, but as said earlier, real users of the distributions shall care. Do you care? If you use some [[Linux]] distribution and you want to package [[NetBeans]] IDE for it, sign for it [[netbeans:Native_Linux_Packages|here]]! |
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