I would be in favor of including it in 12.6, since these feature releases are intended for that purpose, i.e., as experimental and not too big a deal if things aren't perfect.
However, I will default to Neil, since he has an objection here and is doing most of the release management work. Gj On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 1:46 PM Neil C Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 17 Oct 2021 at 23:16, Michael Bien <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 17.10.21 18:17, Jaroslav Tulach wrote: > > >> This is a week later than in the schedule, primarily due to the delay > > >> in merging nb-javac with JDK 17 support. > > > Shalln't we integrate the nb-javac for real? E.g.: > > > https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/3251 > > -1 from me for 12.6. I'm not sure a few days before freeze is the > time to be changing how we distribute nb-javac. > > Possible +1 for 13, but I think there are things to resolve first, > including the things Michael mentions ... > > > this would make it available by default, but is it still possible to > > turn it off, e.g to test java 18 code? > > This, definitely. Should it be enabled by default, opt in, or opt > out? Do we need to improve the UI for this? How do people test with > Java 18 etc.? What about all the issues we've suggested people > disable it for in the past? > > > it would be also nice to have a build job building the automatically > > backported nb-javac from openjdk HEAD and put that somewhere. E.g the > > plugin portal or on github at least (install both side by side with the > > option to switch?). > > I'd like to see this too. And a better update story for nb-javac in > general. How is it managed in future? Ideally we shouldn't be having > to delay NetBeans releases on it. And ideally we should be looking to > have it in testing in advance of JDK releases. > > And that all leads to a question of whether there is general consensus > to make this move? > > None of that is resolvable and testable in a few days IMO. > > 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 > > > >
