Build 657 - installers
Hello EAP users!
With the build 657 there are 2 installers available:
idea657.exe (Windows installation)
idea657.bin (Unix installation)
We encourage you to try them and comment any bugs/inconsistencies.
Any suggestions are welcome!
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Ok, I have installed 657 using the Windows installer. Here comes my comments:
The license sometimes mentions the US and the rights and restrictions of the US government to IDEA. Since you are not located in the US, those paragraphs do not seem to be applicable to you. But I am no lawyer. So better ask one.
The license include licenses for JUnit and Ant. For completness you should include those for Velocity, Log4J, Xerces, JDom and the servlet API.
The installer looks nice, especially the roadmap for the installation at the left side looks good, but
There is a point "Choose JDK location" which was skipped in my install. This resulted in the jre being configured as the JDK. Since the JRE does not contain the sources of the JDK this is inconvenient. You have to change it manually immediatly after the installation to have the sources available.
Since there is no batch file available and there is no hint that those options are now in the lax-file, the installer should give an oportunity to specify the minimum and maximum of memory IDEA shall take. I always change this to 516 Mb / 516 Mb.
I wonder why you don't have the concurrent garbage collector enabled in the lax-file. I have seen no problems with it since I am using it. At least it should be an option in the installer to put it on.
Nice to have the ipr-files connected with IDEA. Thanks for this feature.
There is no console screen opened with IDEA. This is nice for it does not clutter the task bar with one unnecessary entry. But is it really unnecessary? What happens when some part of IDEA throws an Exception. Up to now we could copy it from the console and post it on the tracker. Where are those stacktraces going now?`
It would be nice to have updaters for subsequent builds with only the changed parts. The JRE as an example won't change from one build to the next.
Perhaps someone from IntelliJ could post the idea.bat from the new build
here so's we can copy stacktraces & modify jvm args easily without
downloading 2 lots of 32MB?...
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Robert F. Beeger wrote:
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Robert F. Beeger wrote:
IDEA_HOME\system\log\idea.log
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JVM args can be modified in the lax file and all stacktraces are going to
IDEA_HOME/system/log/idea.log
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Eugene Zhuravlev
JetBrains, Inc, http://www.intellij.com
"Develop with pleasure!"
"Nathan Brown" <nedski@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Can the lax file use Environment Variables? Otherwise we're back to having
to edit the lax file for each release...
N.
Eugene Zhuravlev wrote:
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>> Perhaps someone from IntelliJ could post the idea.bat from the new
>> build here so's we can copy stacktraces & modify jvm args easily
>> without downloading 2 lots of 32MB?...
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>> Robert F. Beeger wrote:
>> snip
>>> installation to have the sources available. * Since there is no
>>> batch file available and there is no hint that those options are
>>> now in the lax-file, the installer should give an oportunity to
>>> specify the minimum and maximum of memory IDEA shall take. I always
>>> change this to 516 Mb / 516 Mb. * I wonder why you don't have the
>>> concurrent garbage collector enabled in the lax-file. I have seen
>>> no problems with it since I am using it. At least it should be an
>>> option in the installer to put it on. * Nice to have the ipr-files
>>> connected with IDEA. Thanks for this feature. * There is no console
>>> screen opened with IDEA. This is nice for it does not clutter the
>>> task bar with one unnecessary entry. But is it really unnecessary?
>>> What happens when some part of IDEA throws an Exception. Up to now
>>> we could copy it from the console and post it on the tracker. Where
>>> are those stacktraces going now?` * It would be nice to have
>>> updaters for
>> snip
What particular environment variables you need?
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"Nathan Brown" <nedski@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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The ones that used to be configurable in the batch file, particularly
IDEA_JVM_ARGS.
N.
Eugene Zhuravlev wrote:
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>> Can the lax file use Environment Variables? Otherwise we're back to
>> having to edit the lax file for each release...
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>> N.
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>> Eugene Zhuravlev wrote:
>>> JVM args can be modified in the lax file and all stacktraces are
>>> going to IDEA_HOME/system/log/idea.log
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>>> "Nathan Brown" <nedski@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>> news:ao1eqj$c0$1@is.intellij.net...
>>>> Perhaps someone from IntelliJ could post the idea.bat from the new
>>>> build here so's we can copy stacktraces & modify jvm args easily
>>>> without downloading 2 lots of 32MB?...
>>>> N
>>>>
>>>> Robert F. Beeger wrote:
>>>> snip
>>>>> installation to have the sources available. * Since there is no
>>>>> batch file available and there is no hint that those options are
>>>>> now in the lax-file, the installer should give an oportunity to
>>>>> specify the minimum and maximum of memory IDEA shall take. I
>>>>> always change this to 516 Mb / 516 Mb. * I wonder why you don't
>>>>> have the concurrent garbage collector enabled in the lax-file. I
>>>>> have seen no problems with it since I am using it. At least it
>>>>> should be an option in the installer to put it on. * Nice to have
>>>>> the ipr-files connected with IDEA. Thanks for this feature. *
>>>>> There is no console screen opened with IDEA. This is nice for it
>>>>> does not clutter the task bar with one unnecessary entry. But is
>>>>> it really unnecessary? What happens when some part of IDEA throws
>>>>> an Exception. Up to now we could copy it from the console and
>>>>> post it on the tracker. Where are those stacktraces going now?` *
>>>>> It would be nice to have updaters for
>>>> snip
Nathan,
Which JVM args have you specified via IDEA_JVM_ARGS?
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Min & Max heap sizes and Concurrent GC.
Mike Aizatsky wrote:
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The use of concurrent GC is highly not recommended with IDEA. We've
encountered deadlocks with it.
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Really? In what situations? I've been running it ever since 1.4.1 has been out, and I've never had a problem (yet).
Tobin
We've seen many reports in different unpredictable situations of IDEA
"deadlock", while stacktrace didn't shows even a sign of deadlock. In all
the cases it turned out that concurrent GC is used.
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JetBrains, Inc / IntelliJ Software
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"Develop with pleasure!"
It would also be nice to be able to specify a config folder
by passing in something like IDEA_CONFIG
Marius
Eugene Zhuravlev wrote:
>>Can the lax file use Environment Variables? Otherwise we're back to
>>to edit the lax file for each release...
>>
>>N.
>>
>>Eugene Zhuravlev wrote:
>>
>>>JVM args can be modified in the lax file and all stacktraces are
>>>going to IDEA_HOME/system/log/idea.log
>>>
>>>
>>>"Nathan Brown" <nedski@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>>news:ao1eqj$c0$1@is.intellij.net...
>>>
>>>>Perhaps someone from IntelliJ could post the idea.bat from the new
>>>>build here so's we can copy stacktraces & modify jvm args easily
>>>>without downloading 2 lots of 32MB?...
>>>>N
>>>>
>>>>Robert F. Beeger wrote:
>>>>snip
>>>>
>>>>>installation to have the sources available. * Since there is no
>>>>>batch file available and there is no hint that those options are
>>>>>now in the lax-file, the installer should give an oportunity to
>>>>>specify the minimum and maximum of memory IDEA shall take. I always
>>>>>change this to 516 Mb / 516 Mb. * I wonder why you don't have the
>>>>>concurrent garbage collector enabled in the lax-file. I have seen
>>>>>no problems with it since I am using it. At least it should be an
>>>>>option in the installer to put it on. * Nice to have the ipr-files
>>>>>connected with IDEA. Thanks for this feature. * There is no console
>>>>>screen opened with IDEA. This is nice for it does not clutter the
>>>>>task bar with one unnecessary entry. But is it really unnecessary?
>>>>>What happens when some part of IDEA throws an Exception. Up to now
>>>>>we could copy it from the console and post it on the tracker. Where
>>>>>are those stacktraces going now?` * It would be nice to have
>>>>>updaters for
>>>>
>>>>snip
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