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Downloading Day

Both NetBeans and IntelliJ released new versions yesterday or today. So I've been downloading.

They say this version of NetBeans should be a big improvement over the previous version. I'll see.

For both IDEs, I have to download a Linux version and a Windows version. It strikes me as odd that I have to do that. They spent all their time and energy to make the Linux version and the Windows version identical, and at the last step throw away that benefit for their users.

Whatever happened to executable jars?

Or is it time for the Cross Platform Installer API JSR?

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Posted by Weiqi Gao on April 14, 2004 7:47:05 AM CDT #


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Re: Downloading Day

Comment from Gabriel Mihalache on April 14, 2004 2:32:08 PM CDT #
"Or is it time for the Cross Platform Installer API JSR?" It's hard to say! We already have InstallAnywhere and its free version. I don't see what anything else can be done, except a small executable to check for Java presence on the system, and a decent file I/O and management API for Java. :-)
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Comment from Weiqi Gao on April 14, 2004 4:29:41 PM CDT #

You are right Gabriel. I should have noticed the generic jar offering at the NetBeans download page.

I apologize for the outburst.


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