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We encourage people to redistribute NetBeans as their own application. It would help to make this easier for people, in the following way - a wizard that allows you to create a new distribution of the IDE, specify which modules should be in it, branding, etc. and create the result as a zip file, based on the running instance of the IDE. Workflow would be something like: - Select splash screen, product name and other branding stuff - Select from the installed modules which modules should end up in the new distro - Saves current configuration of the IDE as default configuration of new distro (e.g. editor colors, etc) - Choose from mounted filesystems to distribute example files with the new distribution - Build the distribution - Offer to notify netbeans.org that this distribution exists, so it can be added to the 3rd party page
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Just updating the component.
Maybe. This is very open-ended however. There are dozens of things that different distributions might want to customize, a wizard could not hope to cover more than a couple of toy things.
I'd say if we could offer the basics that get someone a reasonable build of their app, that would be a start. Things like default menu configuration and so forth...it's open-ended, but I think we could come up with a reasonable subset that would work and be valuable.
Implemented in some form. Open separate RFEs for more specific things.