Re: Ship with most modules disabled?
"Gili" <[email protected]>
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Two related suggestions: - Make it easier to download modules on the fly (i.e. don't make it explicit that you need to download them, but the first time a user turns out a feature that ships disabled by default, download and install it for him automatically) - For a lot of these other features, such as web support. Is there a way to separate module initialization from module usage? I mean, the only thing a module would need to initialize is its visible components. So I should be able to mount a CVS file-system for example, but maybe the CVS module is not actually enabled/loaded until there is at least one mounted CVS file-system. See what I mean? It would be a further level of lazy initialization that maybe would yield faster startup results. Gili On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 10:42:00 +0530, Anshuman wrote: >hi >I have been developing using netbeans for some time now and I think that >this is a very good suggestion. The Netbeans IDE has too many modules that >are not always required. It is really slow at start up and this is >irritating especially when you need to start it up quite often for testing >purposes. It would be best if the Options Window is simpler to use for the >end user who can configure his requirements very easily. >Anshuman >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Gili" <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 11:41 PM >Subject: [nbui] Ship with most modules disabled? >> Hi, >> >> A blog I just read mentioned how the perception in the market remains that >Netbeans is slow and among other >> things he seems to suggest that one of the reasons Netbeans loads up so >slowly is because it ships with so many >> modules that most users don't use immediately out of the box. Specifically >he recommends shipping with less used >> modules such as Tomcat disabled and make it easier for end-users to figure >out how to enable modules on demand. >> >> Anyway some food for thought. Does his argument hold any water? >> >> Gili >> >> >> >> >> >> Fiorano MailServer >> All incoming and outgoing mails are scanned for Virus and Spam >> http://www.fiorano.com >Fiorano MailServer >All incoming and outgoing mails are scanned for Virus and Spam >http://www.fiorano.com