Well, maybe: - short term: a solution whereby nb-javac is acceptable (let the user check a checkbox in the convenience binary installer whereby they agree to suffer all [not really existent] legal consequences of downloading and installing the two nb-javac JARs)
- medium term: drop nb-javac and use javac directly (jlahoda has a prototype) - long term: LSP (antonio has a dream) Gj On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 at 20:36, Antonio <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Yes, exactly: we need two solutions for the same problem: a short term > one to launch but a long term one too. > > I think I read somewhere that the Language Server Protocol had problems > with refactoring. I'm not sure about this, though. > > From my point of view the NetBeans IDE should embrace the LSP sooner or > later. I don't think LSP is just a fashion, and I think it's going to > stay. Taking advantage of any third-party LSP tools would be great. > > Finally, I don't know if LSP is comparable to nb-javac, nor if they're > incompatible. I'll have to dig deeper into nb-javac to understand to > what extent is integrated into the NetBeans IDE, what it does and how it > works. Any pointers on this, anyone? > > Cheers, > Antonio > > > El 14/11/17 a las 20:44, Geertjan Wielenga escribió: > > 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 theibeing downloaded and placed in > > the correct locations locally? > > > > Gj > > > > On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 at 19:36, Neil C Smith <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 14 Nov 2017, 18:54 Jan Lahoda, <[email protected]> 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 > >> > > >
