[RELEASES] Preparing for 16-rc2

2022-10-26 Thread Neil C Smith
Hi, All opened PRs for delivery / NB16 have been merged. Assuming all is green, I'll sync to the release branch and trigger a build later today or tomorrow. Please no merging to delivery until the post-rc2 sync to master is done. Thanks, Neil

Re: nb-javac for building NetBeans itself

2022-10-26 Thread Ernie Rael
On 22/10/24 9:42 AM, Neil C Smith wrote: OTOH, I don't think this is all suited to technical discussion on individual code changes either, as there are also questions of broad direction of travel raised here that need to be reconciled. In the before time, in the Kingdom of Java, NetBeans was in

Re: nb-javac for building NetBeans itself

2022-10-26 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
The direction is clear — we all work together on NetBeans and, since we’re all different people with different perspectives, we share our different ideas and perspectives, discuss them, and provide pull requests based on our ideas and perspectives. Some are accepted and some not, depending on how

Re: nb-javac for building NetBeans itself

2022-10-26 Thread Glenn Holmer
On 10/25/22 22:48, Laszlo Kishalmi wrote: > I'm confused as well. Still not clear, what are we about to solve here. > Use new lang spec with old runtimes? I do not have granny issues... Also confused. If this is all so people can still code for Java 8 in this day and age, I say drop support for

Re: Java Help student project started

2022-10-26 Thread Ernie Rael
On 22/10/17 12:54 AM, Oliver Rettig wrote: Hi all, since years we miss a modern (on- and offline) help-viewer for your netbeans platform applications. Now, we have just started a student project at the Cooperative State University Karlsruhe (Germany) to fill this gap. It will run the next six

Re: nb-javac for building NetBeans itself

2022-10-26 Thread Eric Bresie
Sorry I’m not in the know here from a who developed what but… Since the below is forked from https://github.com/oracle/nb-javac Is that going to be a problem? Or is that the beauty of open source development (i.e. fork it, enhance it, rebrand it [maybe nb-jc], etc. - license permitting)? Eric

Re: [feedback thread] Label controlled CI pipeline

2022-10-26 Thread Michael Bien
On 17.10.22 19:23, Svata Dedic wrote: On 17. 10. 22 15:13, Michael Bien wrote: I saw the micronaut tests of the enterprise job fail twice so far. This might need to be wrapped into the retry script. Have you links to those failures ? I've added the whole micronaut testsuite recently (PR

Re: nb-javac for building NetBeans itself

2022-10-26 Thread Michael Bien
just to clarify: I don't think anybody suggested to drop Java 8 support in the NetBeans editor. Imagine nb-javac as a dependency like any other artifact. If NB wants to support Java X, it would have to get a javac which supports java X from somewhere. If nb-javac would be gone, NB 16

Re: nb-javac for building NetBeans itself

2022-10-26 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
Just been looking into open source work done in the context of the European Union and one of the key applications there requires JDK 8: https://github.com/l-e-x/leos I.e., we need to stop thinking that Java 8 is somehow dead or ethically or otherwise problematic -- it's simply what a great deal

Re: nb-javac for building NetBeans itself

2022-10-26 Thread Scott Palmer
JDK 8 is still supported by Oracle. Dropping it should happen when it makes sense, after support has ended. If you need to work on Java versions prior to 8, first, I’m sorry, you have my sympathy, second, download an older version of NetBeans that supports it - if you are living in the past