jtulach commented on code in PR #5694:
URL: https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/5694#discussion_r1145372041


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webcommon/libs.nashorn/src/com/oracle/js/parser/AbstractParser.java:
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Review Comment:
   Wow! Thanks for BCCing me.
   
   > The resulting binary was already part of the release ... now the code is 
also in the project.
   
   If Apache Foundation is OK with hosting UPL code in its repositories, then I 
believe this is legally OK move. Go on.
   
   From an engineering perspective: This means NetBeans project is going to 
host a fork of Graal.js parser. So far NetBeans only relied on a fork of the 
Graal.js parser created by me. The difference is: now it is going to be easier 
to add further diverging commits to the fork. That may get us into problems 
when trying to support new features of JavaScript offered by new versions of 
Graal.js project.
   
   The original plan always was to change NetBeans JavaScript Editor to work 
with 21.+ version of Graal.js parser. By maintaining our own fork we are 
diverging from that goal. Diverging may have some positive effect now, but may 
hurt us in the future.
   
   Whether such a "divergence" is bad remains to be seen. Moreover it is my 
personal failure that I haven't managed to convince anyone in OracleLabs 
(probably @sdedic) to work on reworking the JavaScript support in NetBeans onto 
new versions of Graal.js. My bad and I have no right to complain.
   



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