I think we may be a bit too eager to drop JDK 8. :-) Bear in mind that would leave us supporting only one LTS release of the JDK, i.e., JDK 11.
Gj On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 at 08:46, Jan Lahoda <lah...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Two comments: > -I know some people that have NetBeans platform application, and target JDK > 8. I hope they'll comment here. > -regarding JDK 11 and (nb-)javac - while the Java editing using JDK 11's > javac is possible, I think it still leaves a lot to be desired (for > example, IIRC, there were some improvements to lambda error recovery in JDK > 12, which improved at least Java code completion). > > Jan > > On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 2:13 AM Laszlo Kishalmi <laszlo.kisha...@gmail.com > > > wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > What do you think about stopping support Java 8 as NetBeans runtime from > > 12.1 and on? > > > > Neil mentioned it in the user's chat first regarding that we have issues > > with nb-javac from time to time. > > > > As we know our mid term plan is/was to rely on javac tooling instead of > > habing to maintain the nb-javac fork. > > > > Right now NetBeans run fairly well on standard javac, however when the > > IDE is running on Java 8 we need the nb-javac. > > > > I think removing Java 8 support as runtime shall be not a big deal, it > > would be a few thing less to worry about. During the 12.x cycle we could > > perfect our stuff on Java 11. > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.apache.org > > > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > > > > > > >
