Re: Potential blocker in 12.0 (and 11.3!)

2020-05-20 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
I must add that a sign of a big breakthrough in NetBeans progress is historically always right at the point of my greatest despair — which is good because that point is now: we’ve missed our release date, might not make it at all this month, which will have knock on effects. I propose we accept Ne

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2020-05-20 Thread Ernie Rael
Hi all, I just filed https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-4356. I guess it's a regression in 12b4 (or a feature). I don't have a simple test case, but I'll try. It's very painful when it's happening. -ernie - To u

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2020-05-20 Thread Ernie Rael
Hi all, I just filed https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-4356. I guess it's a regression in 12b4 (or a feature). I don't have a simple test case, but I'll try. It's very painful when it's happening. -ernie - To u

Re: Potential blocker in 12.0 (and 11.3!)

2020-05-20 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
Yeah, I don't think we should discuss anymore if but how this should be fixed, especially given this is an LTS release. Gj On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 11:24 PM Neil C Smith wrote: > On Wed, 20 May 2020, 20:09 Matthias Bläsing, > wrote: > > > this is not true. The problem exist since the first rele

Re: Potential blocker in 12.0 (and 11.3!)

2020-05-20 Thread Neil C Smith
On Wed, 20 May 2020, 20:09 Matthias Bläsing, wrote: > this is not true. The problem exist since the first release of Apache > NetBeans. nbjavac was required on all JDKs and is now required on JDK > 8. It is true if we're talking about the same thing - nb-javac has never been required *via ergon

Re: Potential blocker in 12.0 (and 11.3!)

2020-05-20 Thread Matthias Bläsing
Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 20.05.2020, 09:08 +0100 schrieb Neil C Smith: > On Tue, 12 May 2020 at 12:02, Neil C Smith > wrote: > > .. I was just testing ... 12.0-beta4 ... and noticed a > > potential blocker issue. > > .. > > When importing settings from a previous install a dialog appears to > > insta

Re: Potential blocker in 12.0 (and 11.3!)

2020-05-20 Thread Neil C Smith
On Wed, 20 May 2020 at 18:12, Geertjan Wielenga wrote: > What is your opinion on this, since you're one of very few who understands > the scope of this problem: what would you recommend? I've got a handle on the problems now, but not necessarily the causes! And delving around JIRA can be a dirty

Re: Potential blocker in 12.0 (and 11.3!)

2020-05-20 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
I don't see anyone arguing at this stage that this is not a blocker -- or at least no one is saying it should not be fixed for 12.0. What is your opinion on this, since you're one of very few who understands the scope of this problem: what would you recommend? Gj On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 10:09 A

Re: NetBeans 12 Beta4 unable

2020-05-20 Thread John Kostaras
Hallo Alessandro, in Mac it displays *https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/java13/docs/api * (for Java 13 obviously). Same story with the other JDKs. I tried with GraalVM 8, no issue. I don't have any OpenJDK installed to try. Kind regards, John. On

NetBeans 12 Beta4 unable

2020-05-20 Thread Alessandro
Hi all, I am trying the latest beta and I noticed that it is unable to properly configure the Javadoc URLs of the Java platforms. I am on Ubuntu 18.04 with OpenJDK 11.0.7 installed trough the OS packages (openjdk-11-jdk package), I also have OpenJDK 8u252 (openjdk-8-jdk package). In the Java Platfo

Re: Potential blocker in 12.0 (and 11.3!)

2020-05-20 Thread Neil C Smith
On Tue, 12 May 2020 at 12:02, Neil C Smith wrote: >.. I was just testing ... 12.0-beta4 ... and noticed a > potential blocker issue. > .. > When importing settings from a previous install a dialog appears to install > [JavaFX and nb-javac] > that gets stuck in a loop if you try to cancel it. OK,