NetBeans in Mandriva Linux, Fedora next
One of the things I really enjoy about JavaOne is getting to meet other Sun employees from around the world whom I've only corresponded with via email or talked to over the phone. Earlier this week I got to meet Jaroslav "Yarda" Tulach from our NetBeans team in Prague.
I had recently learned that Jaroslav, on his own time, had packaged NetBeans for inclusion in Mandriva 2008.1. This effort also served as the basis for the work needed to get NetBeans into Ubuntu. I had planned to blog about this before JavaOne but things got too crazy. Now I'm able to post the entry and with a picture to boot!
Not only that but at JavaOne I learned from Tom Fitzsimmons of Fedora/RedHat that Jaroslav's work to get NetBeans into Fedora is coming along nicely and should result in NetBeans getting in a update for Fedora 9. Tres cool!
Jaroslav, this Bud's for you (the real Czech kind not the crappy American brew).
Great news! Which version of NetBeans? And, _all_ of NetBeans? :-) - eduard/o
Posted by Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart on May 09, 2008 at 10:09 AM CDT #
The version is 6.0. Let me check with Yarda on whether its the full monty ;)
Posted by Barton George on May 09, 2008 at 10:34 AM CDT #
Hi.
Packaging NetBeans is quite tough job as the number of external libraries is enormous. That is why we decided to package as little as possible, while making the rest available on update center as modules, plugins.
So the packaged version contains java support and NetBeans Module support. The rest needs to be downloaded via update center.
So you have "potentially" all NetBeans, but not actually ;-)
Posted by Jaroslav Tulach on May 09, 2008 at 07:36 PM CDT #