On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 12:04 PM Neil C Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 at 05:45, Laszlo Kishalmi <[email protected]> > wrote: > > As version 12.2 got out, > > Congratulations! And thanks. > +100! > - Our love and hate relationship to nb-javac needs to be resolved. We > > suggest people to go without it, then we suggest people to try that. > > Also with the current release we see an increased amount of NPE-s and > > parsing errors. If we would like to have it around, maybe we need to > > able to patch it, even if outside Apache. But at the moment even me the > > latest RM do not know what to think about that. > > Drop it! ;-) > > Or if we keep it, then absolutely in favour of Matthias' blocker for > next release. Move to delivering nb-javac via Maven and plugin > portal. > > Previous releases have been delayed by nb-javac not landing before > freeze, and not being adequately tested. Even landing at freeze feels > +1 too late. And the third-party UC is another cause of problems, and we > shouldn't need an IDE release just to deliver an nb-javac update? > On this, one thing I'd like to note is that, at least between NetBeans 6.0 and Netbeans 8.2, NetBeans (Java editor) was always bound to a single version of (nb-)javac, for better or worse. We need an IDE release (or update) to fix a small bug in java.hints, PHP editor, to update any of the bundled libraries and tools (including Apache Ant, Lucene, Maven, etc.), and even JavaFX, as far as I know. Is (nb-)javac really so different? Jan > To deliver nb-javac via plugin portal we would also need a per release > catalog - not just 11, 12, etc. And possibly one explicitly for dev. > If nb-javac stays then is a snapshot version in dev (for master) that > tracks upstream javac commits feasible? That process feels like it > could be partly automated, but not here obviously! > > 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 > > > >
