On Sun, 28 Jun 2020 at 19:12, Jan Lahoda <[email protected]> wrote: > Frankly, I wonder what would be the benefit of dropping the JDK 8 support. > Yes, nb-javac is more strictly needed on JDK 8 than on JDK 11, but running > without nb-javac on JDK 11 is not particularly pleasant either. So nb-javac > is effectively needed on JDK 11 as well.
>From a technical perspective I agree wholeheartedly. But that original discussion on dropping nb-javac from 12.1 onwards came from a practical perspective. The nb-javac for 11.2 arrived far too late in the process, and with a few serious issues that had not (and could not have) been picked up in beta testing. The nb-javac that was originally intended to be in 12.0 has still not landed. So, as we're in a thread about Oracle needs from Apache NetBeans - if we were to keep nb-javac support as preferred in the IDE, surely we need from Oracle that nb-javac lands to our schedule, is integrated by feature freeze, and is ready to fully be part of testing during beta and/or NetCAT? If we are to keep the existing nb-javac as is and purely legacy for JDK 8 and 11, then maybe some way to ensure its disabled even if it is installed while running on JDK 14+? 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
