On 18.10.21 08:30, Jaroslav Tulach 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
> -jt
>
this would make it available by default, but is it still possible to
turn it off, e.g to test java 18 code?
That's a developer request, right? We don't want to scare regular
NetBeans users with such confusing configuration, I assume. At least
the biggest UX motivation for including nb-javac by default is to
avoid all the download dialogs when one wants to use NetBeans to
develop Java. It should work out of the box.
getting rid of the dialog is a worthy effort i suppose, but is it still
possible to disable the nb-javac module in the plugin manage without
breaking NB after the change?
I have to admit, i never installed nb-javac so far, for the simple
reason that if i wanted to test early access JDKs (panama, loom, crac,
you name it), all i had to do was to start NB with that JDK. NB then
tried in a "best effort" manner to provide editor support using the ea
javac - which usually worked good enough for testing or bugfixing purposes.
Opening a project which has a higher language level than nb-javac knows
however would break everything.
I also never use old JDKs for any of my dev tools in general, unless it
would break something. So the difference between javac and nb-javac is
usually small anyway.
-michael
it would be also nice to have a build job building the automatically
backported nb-javac from openjdk HEAD and put that somewhere.
Yes, that would be great. However please note that the
https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/3251
proposes to use the manually crafted [email protected] right now.
Of course, the ultimate goal of all these changes is to simplify our
codebase by avoiding reflection needed to mitigate dealing with
different versions of Javac from all the different JDKs. Automatically
backported nb-javac should play an important role in such mission in
the future.
-jt
