> On Sep 22, 2021, at 1:01 PM, Ernie Rael <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 9/21/2021 10:50 AM, Geertjan Wielenga wrote:
>> 2. *The next major release.* [snip] From 13
>> onwards, maybe each release should be a major release, i.e., there are
>> enough numbers in the world, we don't need minor releases anymore after
>> that breakpoint.
>
>
> This essentially makes release numbers meaningless, which seems to be the way
> things are going...
>
> There is a, perhaps, unintended consequence. The plugins I support have
> continued to work, and be available in the plugin manager, through all of
> 12.x without any effort on my part. The plugins are keyed to a major release
> number; so IIUC, this release numbering proposal requires each plugin
> maintainer to modify the update-center metadata on every release (PITA).
As a potential workaround to that PITA, the plugin mechanism can be made a bit
more loosely coupled to the version number?
If we want version numbers to be meaningful, I suggest an attempt at something
as close as possible to semantic versioning: https://semver.org
Then plugin compatibility can be inferred from the major version number, and if
that changes it’s because you really do need to check more than metadata to see
if your plugin remains compatible.
If NetBeans moves the required JRE/JDK to 11 or later that would make now the
time to bump the major version to 13 or later. (I would propose the second
most recent LTS release of the JDK as the maximum required version, to give
lots of time to migrate to the next LTS version.)
I do think now that JDK 17 is out there should be no requirement to stick to
Java 8 for running NetBeans - as long as NetBeans can still be used to build
applications for Java 8 without a hassle.
Cheers,
Scott
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