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Motivation

Installer support for 3 party NetBeans distros is required by vendors who produce Plugins for NetBeans and like to simplify installation process.

Description

We will allow to bundle custom NBMs together with the Netbeans installer. Either by including them into the binary or placing somewhere in pre-defined location.

Effort estimation

1 engineer/2 month

Dependencies

Need input from xDesign and Marketing

Impacts

Architecture

Implementation

Implementation overview for NBI-based installers.

API

Documentation

Testing

Extra testing of this feature on sample set of plugins is required.

Performance

Risks

TBD

Additional information