No, nobody needs to switch between JDKs when contributing, as far as I know.
Jan Lahoda and others can provide details on what needs to be done to build NetBeans on JDK 9, though I wonder whether that is a priority. So long as NetBeans can run on JDK 9 (which it can), it doesn't really matter as far as I can see that it needs JDK 8 for building it. >From those who've been contributing code so far, I don't see that this is a blocker. Gj On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 2:28 PM, Martin Dindoffer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi NB dev team, > > As we all know, NB cannot be built using Java 9. With 9 way past its GA, it > seems to pose a roadblock > for new contributors, as they need to switch between 9 and 8 environments > for contributing. > I was wondering, what exactly blocks the j9 builds? As far as I can > remember, the ant script tries to download > the javac, self-compile it and then build an ant bootstrap with it, which > fails. > > Can someone more knowledgeable in this area of Netbeans/ant shed more light > on the issue? Why exactly do > we need the special ant bootstrap and why do we have to redownload and > self-compile the javac? > > There may be some people out there who would volunteer to work on this. > Myself included, but I cannot make any promises right now. > > Thanks, > Martin > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
