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Bug 74750 - Installer should work on dev builds
Summary: Installer should work on dev builds
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: profiler
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Base (show other bugs)
Version: 6.x
Hardware: All All
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: issues@profiler
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Reported: 2006-04-10 22:05 UTC by _ gtzabari
Modified: 2006-10-23 16:40 UTC (History)
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Description _ gtzabari 2006-04-10 22:05:35 UTC 
I think I brought this up before but I forget what the resolution what... the
profiler module should always install on the dev builds. These dev builds go on
for months and it is silly not being able to install on them because very often
the code continues to work just fine.

Please alter the installer to allow installing on the dev builds.
Comment 1 Jiri Sedlacek 2006-04-11 10:15:32 UTC 
Each new NetBeans q-build is released with appropriate Profiler q-build, which 
works with it. Do you mean to enable installing that Profiler q-build to later 
NetBeans daily builds?

A simple workaround may be to simply copy the profiler1 directory from old NB 
installation to the new one, this is the only requirement to get Profiler 
working there.
Comment 2 _ gtzabari 2006-04-11 14:07:34 UTC 
It looks to me like all we do is dump some files into a directory called
"profiler1". In such a case, we should be able to download the profiler from the
same page as the daily builds download page and it should install without
checking which version of Netbeans we have installed. So yes, you should be able
to use the q-builds profiler on a later dev build version.

Having to install an older version of Netbeans, then the profiler, then copying
it into the dev build version of Netbeans is a lot more work than it should be.
Comment 3 Jiri Sedlacek 2006-04-11 14:37:05 UTC 
This is an intention not to provide Profiler daily builds, only q-builds are 
guaranteed to work correctly with appropriate NB q-build. But we are thinking 
of providing latest daily build zip on profiler.netbeans.org (without any 
warranty), it might address this issue.
Comment 4 _ gtzabari 2006-04-11 15:03:06 UTC 
I am not looking for any sort of guarantee. These are dev builds after all. I am
expecting to be able to install dev builds of the profiler on top of dev builds
of Netbeans without any checks.

From personal experience, the profiler for NB 5.0 works just fine on NB dev
builds. I suspect newer versions of the profiler will operate much the same way.
It's just the installer that is the problem. Again, I am not asking for any
guarantees.
Comment 5 Jiri Sedlacek 2006-10-18 14:32:41 UTC 
Profiler 6.0 milestones can be installed into trunk (6.0) devbuilds of 
NetBeans. We can't provide Profiler .zip daily builds due to problems with 
accepting the license. The good news is that Profiler should become an integral 
part of the IDE in the future.