On Wed, 17 Jul 2019 at 16:10, Matthias Bläsing <[email protected]> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 17.07.2019, 16:36 +0200 schrieb Geertjan Wielenga: > > It's not needed anymore, that blocker, but it can be overridden via > > that command line option. > > there is a sound reason to keep it. JDK 9 introduced incompatible > changes and if you build against JDK 9 or newer the resulting classes > link against methods, that are not there on JDK 8.
Yes, some weird things with covariant return types on buffers being one ... > So as long as we want to have netbeans safely usable on JDK 8 > production builds must be build with JDK 8. Although doesn't the --release 8 javac parameter cover this? Best wishes, Neil --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
