Sure, that’s true. Just like the latest Payara and GlassFish can be downloaded.
It would mean we wouldn’t need to bundle enbedded Maven at all. Gj On Fri, 1 May 2020 at 20:23, Ty Young <youngty1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 5/1/20 12:23 AM, Geertjan Wielenga wrote: > > > Well, the user might not have the latest Maven installed. At least we know > for sure that they have the embedded version. > > > Why can't Netbeans download and use the newest Maven on-the-fly? > > > > Gj > > On Fri, 1 May 2020 at 01:38, Ty Young <youngty1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> On 4/30/20 6:08 PM, John Mc wrote: >> >> Unless I'm mistaken, NetBeans uses the embedded NetBeans version, which >> for NetBeans 12.0 should have Maven 3.6.3 embedded. >> >> There will be another beta version of 12.0 out soon I believe, so maybe >> confirm this with that version? >> >> >> What I'm suggesting is to always use the latest version, not just the >> embedded version. Is there any harm in doing so? >> >> >> >> Regards >> >> John >> >> On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 at 20:16, Ty Young <youngty1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> JIRA: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-4285 >>> >>> >>> Netbeans should, assuming there are no blockers, always use the latest >>> Maven release for newly generated projects. >>> >>> >>> Can this be done? The only issue, IIRC, is that Maven and JUnit don't >>> work correctly... but that affects older versions anyway too. No one >>> would be forced to upgrade either, it just affects new projects created >>> via Netbeans. >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@netbeans.apache.org >>> >>> For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: >>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists >>> >>>