Hi, this sounds like a good plan.
So +1 from me. Thank you. Matthias Am Dienstag, den 12.12.2017, 19:20 +0100 schrieb Jan Lahoda: > Hello, > > Today, we were talking with Jarda (jtulach) and Geertjan about what > do we > do with the Java support for the beta release. > > I think the proposal is roughly like this: > -the jdk-javac branch will be updated to > --allow the IDE to start on JDK 8, with javac based Java features > disabled > (as best as we can, some exceptions might still happen, which we will > resolve as we find them). > --when running on JDK 8, there will be a notification/popup/dialog > that the > Java features are disabled and that the IDE either needs to run on > JDK 9 or > later, or the additional nb-javac module must be installed (the > latter > being preferred, a "link" to perform the action included) > --when running on JDK 9, show (once?) a notification/popup that the > IDE's > behavior may improve by installing the additional nb-javac module. > -critical problems with the jdk-javac branch that we find should be > fixed > -a pull request to merge the jdk-javac branch into master will be > sent > > (Jarda, please correct me if I missed something.) > > Are there any comments/objections/help offers to this proposal? > > I'd like to get to this later this week. > > Thanks, > Jan
