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The official installation instruction for Apache NetBeans 9.0 not clear. If you go to the installation link and look through the text you would see "Mac OSX" being mentioned and and no mention of "Windows". Reader should be told that "from a ZIP Archive" means "for Windows"!

I know that NetBeans is an open source project, but is there a way to get to the source code of the installation instruction? What should I know before making a change?

Halvor Holsten Strand
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  • [1] _"from a ZIP Archive" means "for Windows"_ => Since zip files can be used on any platform, they probably decided that Windows (or MacOS or Linux) is strongly implied. The NB 9 installation page also recently added a YouTube link to a video titled [Get Started with NetBeans from a ZIP Archive](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am-7aa2hYgc), though the demo is shown using macOS, not Windows. [2] _"What should I know before making a change"_ => Installing a new release has no impact on any existing NetBeans installation(s). It is unfortunate that the release note does not make that clear. – skomisa Dec 25 '18 at 02:08
  • I want to improve installation instruction, that is the goal of the question. Improvement of the installation instruction is the change I want to make. How can I do it? – Yevgeniy Afanasyev Dec 25 '18 at 02:27
  • OK, but in that case isn't your question effectively seeking opinion based answers, which would be off topic for SO? As a related matter you might be interested in [CoolBeans](http://coolbeans.xyz/): _"CoolBeans is an IDE distribution. It packages the best there is in the Apache NetBeans ecosystem, polishes it, fixes minor annoyances and serves them to you in a clean bundle."_. – skomisa Dec 26 '18 at 16:11
  • No, I don't want opinions, I want resources and official project rules to follow. I don't really know what is needed to make a change, but I'm sure that opinions are definitely not needed to make a change. CoolBeans is maybe what I needed. I'm going to have a closer look at it. Thank you. – Yevgeniy Afanasyev Dec 26 '18 at 20:36
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    Just FYI, [NetBeans 10.0 was released today](https://netbeans.apache.org/download/nb100/nb100.html). – skomisa Dec 27 '18 at 22:56

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