On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 07:38:10 +0200 Geertjan Wielenga <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com.INVALID> wrote:
> We need to be clear about whether this is about building on a > particular JDK or running on a particular JDK. I am mostly interested with building. Though I tend to run on the same JDK I used for building. In theory it should be possible to use newer JDK for build and run under older via --release. Providing no modules need modules or exports. Since --release cannot be combined with --add-modules or --add-exports. Anything not needing modules or exports in the JDK or outside. Should be possible to build on newer JDK setting --release for running on an older JDK. I have not had any issues with --release thus far. > Also, I think before we discuss moving away from JDK 8 altogether, we > need to be 100% sure that the support for the later JDKs is really > perfect, i.e., that it really and actually completely works. I thought that was the idea behind NB 9.0. Otherwise if NB 9.0 is just more of Java 8 and does not fully support say 9/10, and 11 next month. Not sure what the point of a 9.0 release was rather than 8.3. Or even a 8.5, which is usually used for things between JDK versions. Otherwise I do fully agree there is solid support for newer JDKs before moving away from 8. Happy to help where I can! -- William L. Thomson Jr.
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