I'm trying to reproduce this in 11.3 but am failing to do so, could you provide some quick steps from scratch, assuming I have just installed 11.3 and am starting with a clean userdir?
Gj On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 1:02 PM Neil C Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > >
