This Bugzilla instance is a read-only archive of historic NetBeans bug reports. To report a bug in NetBeans please follow the project's instructions for reporting issues.

Bug 10526

Summary:	Download of external modules
Product:	platform	Reporter:	Jaroslav Tulach <jtulach>
Component:	Autoupdate	Assignee:	akemr <akemr>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	P2
Version:	3.x
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg04967.html
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:

Description Jaroslav Tulach 2001-03-21 09:27:12 UTC

The major problem that we are facing with a lot of modules is that they require
external binaries and we are not able to deliver them together with the module. 

One option would be to convince our layers to change their minds and declare
other licences compatible with SPL, but that takes time and seems unlikely right
now.

Anyway our goal is to deliver modules to the user as simply as possible and that
is why I am calling for additional feature in autoupdate. Let's allow download
of external libraries directly from autoupdate.

There has been a discussion on nbdev@
(http://www.netbeans.org/www-nbdev/msg04967.html) which contains the pros and
cons of this approach, but in my opinion there is more pros, so we should decide
to implement this feature for 3.3 release.

Comment 1 Jan Chalupa 2001-05-05 20:01:56 UTC

Target milestone -> 3.3

Comment 2 akemr 2001-07-09 15:35:23 UTC

Reassign to proper address.

Comment 3 akemr 2001-07-19 16:41:54 UTC

Part of this enhancement implemented in main trunk.

http://autoupdate.netbeans.org/plans/features.html#External binaries