Re: Teaching with NetBeans

Ray Tayek wrote:

> At 10:35 AM 6/19/03 +0200, you wrote:
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>> Ray Tayek wrote:
>> ...
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>>> downloading would be ok, but in my case on windoze, the students can 
>>> not write to the c drive. but installing a custom build sounds like 
>>> a good idea.
>>
>>
>> If you feel like taking the initiative to do it, it's not too hard.
>> Probably start with the NetBeans 3.5 sources -
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>
> ... <snip lots of very good info> ...
>
> ,,,on the yes side, sounds great!
>
>>> on the no side, as you pointed out. someone will have to make and 
>>> maintain it
>>
>>
>> Well, the nice part is that "it" in this case is probably 10 lines in 
>> a text
>> file :-)
>>
>>> you have probably given me (and others) enough clues in *one* post 
>>> to get around many problems. i did find some good stuff in the ant 
>>> book on netbeans, ...
>>
>
> the real problem is, i can not really change anything without jumping 
> *many* hoops during a short period of time when they make the master 
> c: drives for *all* 300 or so machines in the labs. best i can hope 
> for is that whoever did the install did something reasonable and i can 
> point it to some config file or something. 

Well, I'm not clear on the situation there, or how the machines are
administrated;  if you were to do your own build, you would
have a zip file that just needs to be unzipped to install NetBeans -
is there any admin or someone responsible for the lab machines
who can ensure it's unzipped somewhere on each C: drive? 
I know in our particular office at Sun, our admins keep a disk
image of the basic OS install that should be on machines, and
when a machine needs to be wiped, that disk image is simply
reinstalled over the network.  If your folks are doing anything
like that, maybe you could get the build of NetBeans for your
students included as part of the basic OS install?

-Tim