My understanding of the approach to take and the status here: 1. nb-javac is a fork of javac and hence Oracle has not donated it to Apache.
2. Long term, we need to somehow move away from this, using javac directly from the JDK, and jlahoda has a proof of concept for this. 3. Short term, nb-javac must be (a) developed and (b) stored outside Apache and (c) distributed such that anyone using it must (d) explicitly install it and (d) must explicitly confirm their awareness that they’re installing JARs under their own responsibility and that any legal consequences are their own to bear. Gj On Tuesday, November 14, 2017, ehsavoie <[email protected]> wrote: > Why don't we build a version with nb-javac in it and distribute it ? > If we don't distribute it under the ASF but outside then it is ok right ? > > > ---------- > Emmanuel Hugonnet > http://www.ehsavoie.com > http://twitter.com/ehsavoie > > On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 8:44 PM, Geertjan Wielenga < > [email protected] <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > What we want, is not so relevant, unfortunately. And asking anyone > anything > > is a question of months, which we don’t have. Wider needs, great, let’s > > work on those. > > > > In the meantime, what’s the best approach? Maybe putting these two > nb-javac > > JARs on bitbucket and explicitly informing the user during installation > via > > the installer wizard for agreement on their being downloaded and placed > in > > the correct locations locally? > > > > Gj > > > > On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 at 19:36, Neil C Smith <[email protected] > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 14 Nov 2017, 18:54 Jan Lahoda, <[email protected] > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > > > > > Another aspect is from where to download the library: I assume we > would > > > > need a reasonably stable place to which we could point the users. > > > > > > > > Are there any opinions on this? > > > > > > > > > > As before when this came up, as well as where it's downloaded from, I'd > > be > > > interested to know how it's going to be maintained there? It feels hard > > to > > > answer one question without the other? > > > > > > I also still wonder whether there's been further thought on asking the > > > OpenJDK project to host it (as ide-javac)? The last time I suggested > that > > > there was a feeling that it was too NetBeans specific, and other > projects > > > were moving to things like Language Server Protocol. Just for the > record > > > (as I mentioned to Jaroslav a while back) of the two LSP plugins for > > Java, > > > one is Eclipse based, and the other is using nb-javac. There is > > obviously a > > > wider need for the features it brings! > > > > > > Best wishes, > > > > > > Neil > > > > > > > -- > > > Neil C Smith > > > Artist & Technologist > > > www.neilcsmith.net > > > > > > Praxis LIVE - hybrid visual IDE for creative coding - > www.praxislive.org > > > > > >
