Update Windows packaging to support Open With... on files
Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- build-system, release
Research direction
Start with the Windows installer packaging and the launcher changes in PR 8408, then inspect how netbeans.conf sets the relative BASEDIR and how the shortcut currently supplies --jdkhome. Test the packaged IDE and platform with Open With... on files, including bundled and system JDK cases; done means the supported launch paths work without relying on the shortcut.
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Description
For legacy reasons, the Windows installer with bundled JDK sets the --jdkhome location via the shortcut. This does not work when used with Open With... on a file, and is susceptible to other issues. Using the launcher directly will either use a system installed JDK or fail to launch at all.
Related issue / discussion thread (amongst others) at https://github.com/apache/netbeans/discussions/9378
With changes in the launcher in https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/8408 it should now be possible to specify a relative link in the netbeans.conf file using BASEDIR. This will require testing with IDE and platform. Thought should be given whether to keep the shortcut support for packaging older versions, and also whether to filter out the 32-bit launcher from the installed files.
- Dominant language
- Java
- Stars
- 35
- Forks
- 13
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
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