Updating core modules separately

[Chris2011]

As far as I can remember, back in the days, when NetBeans was part of oracle, so until 8.2, it was possible to add bug fixes into core modules and release them separately. So if for example 8.2 was released, it was possible, if there was a bug that slipped through for example in the XML Support module and it was 1.25.0, we could fix this, update to 1.25.1 and on NetBeans open or going to the plugin manager inside of NetBeans, it showed that there is a newer version of the XML module and I can install it.

I know that under Apache, we always need the source and the correspondig application so NetBeans as it self. So is it correct, that because of the modules are not separeted built or they don't lay as an artifact, we can't do this anymore or what is the concrete reason?

It is just a question that came into my mind, that we need to wait 3 months (which, tbh is not thaaat long) to get a bugfix for a critical issue. On the other side, we didn't have that big critical issues whcih is quite good as far as I can see.

[neilcsmith-net]

This is perfectly possible and we've done it a few times. Look back through the list archives for u1 release votes.

[Chris2011]

Thx, I didn't noticed this but good that we can do this if possible. Thx. :)