Looks ok to me as well

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On Oct 1, 2013, at 5:32 AM, Chris Hegarty <chris.hega...@oracle.com> wrote:

> The changes look ok to me Mike. Thanks,
> 
> -Chris,
> 
> On 09/30/2013 09:48 PM, Mike Duigou wrote:
>> Hello all;
>> 
>> When JDK-8006709 (http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/jdk/rev/cff8d7768d72) 
>> was pushed it changed the default source level for the jdk project NetBeans 
>> projects to 1.8. This was a reasonable change since at this point there was 
>> already a small amount of Java 8 "-source 1.8" code in the jdk repo. Since 
>> that time the amount of source has increased. This change meant, 
>> unfortunately, that it was no longer possible to use a release version of 
>> netbeans as 7.3 did not support Java 8 source. Users wanting to use the jdk 
>> projects had to use either special lambda builds of NetBeans or the nightly 
>> dev builds.
>> 
>> NetBeans 7.4 will support Java 8 source. This changeset adjusts the projects 
>> so that they are recognized by NetBeans. The same change also works with 
>> NetBeans dev and lambda builds.
>> 
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mduigou/JDK-8025686/0/webrev/
>> 
>> In addition to updating the projects this change also adjusts the location 
>> where classes would be written (assuming that compilation from within 
>> NetBeans wasn't broken--it is currently broken). This change is incomplete 
>> in that it doesn't properly understand the SPEC variable from the new 
>> makefiles but at least it prevents writing output to the repo directory. 
>> This will be further cleaned up in JDK-8016210 
>> (https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8016210)
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Mike
>> 

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