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 185342

Summary: Provide Javadoc out of the box
Product: installer Reporter: Jaroslav Tulach <jtulach>
Component: RPMAssignee: Victor Vasilyev <vvg>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: jglick, tzezula
Priority: P3    
Version: 6.x   
Hardware: Other   
OS: Linux   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Exception Reporter:

Description Jaroslav Tulach 2010-05-03 09:28:03 UTC 
Java IDE without Javadoc for Java packages is ridiculous. That is why I am constantly being surprised that when I install netbeans, I see no Javadoc. 

I understand the historical reason as well, why it is not present in the ZIP/windows distributions. But, as there are JRE javadoc packages on each Linux distribution, I don't know why we shall not use them.

Here is my patch for netbeans.spec RPM to depend on java-javadoc and link to it via proper default_platform.xml file:

http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/netbeans/current/SPECS/netbeans.spec?r1=533603&r2=541712&pathrev=541712

This patch will work in any version 6.7, 6.8, 6.9 and also in future (however it may be replaced by standard javadoc provider independent on packaging technology one day).

Consider using my patch in Fedore and Ubuntu packages.
Comment 1 Yulia Novozhilova 2010-06-15 10:40:11 UTC 
Fixed for deb packages in Lucid.