> On Aug 21, 2018, at 10:22 AM, Will Hartung <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 4:46 AM, Scott Palmer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> This is not quite right. Anyone using the NB platform is not forced to
>> upgrade the platform they base their application on. The only thing that
>> happens is that the platform code base can hold them back as well from
>> building with new JDK features.
>> IMO the NB code base should support building on the latest released JDK
>> specifically because then it doesn’t hold others back that want to use new
>> Java features for their NB platform applications.
>
>
> But there's a difference between being able to be built on the latest JDK,
> and requiring the latest JDK to build/run.
Yes, and I’m saying the latest Netbeans requiring the latest released JDK to
build is a good thing. It means the latest Java features can be used. If you
don’t want or need them, use an older NetBeans platform - don’t hold everyone
else back.
Scott
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