Hi, As discussed off-list with Geertjan and Eric, I was just testing the Jenkins build of 12.0-beta4 before it was announced, and noticed a potential blocker issue. Interestingly, it's also in 11.3, but not in 11.2.
When importing settings from a previous install (which happens not to have nb-javac or JavaFX installed), a dialog appears to install them that gets stuck in a loop if you try to cancel it. I think this behaviour gets triggered in other ways too, that effectively make those modules non-optional in some workflows. It seems this was reported against 11.3 in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-3810. I remember it at the time, but it was marked minor and the emphasis was on the certificate problem rather than the more serious issue that something regressed between 11.2 and 11.3 that makes it (almost) impossible to get out of the dialog loop without installing the supposedly optional modules. As of yet I haven't looked into what changed in the code that is triggering this, but I don't think we should release 12.0 with this issue. I also haven't checked whether this forces the install on Java 14 yet, which would be even more problematic. 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
