Hi all, I am not against it completely but in my opinion before dropping JDK 8 as NB running JDK the following points must be addressed:
- Compile on Save functionality still requires nb-javac (even on JDK 11) - Some application servers cannot run on JDK 11 this would mean needing a user to define a JDK 8 Java Platform only to launch such application servers As pointed out in Jan Lahoda's mail it also seems that JDK 11 javac is not on par with nb-javac as far as error recovery is concerned, this would impact the java code editing experience. On the positive side JDK 11 should offer some improvements of HiDPI and fonts rendering areas that a graphical application like an IDE could benefit from a lot. Regards, Alex Il giorno gio 27 feb 2020 alle ore 02:13 Laszlo Kishalmi < laszlo.kisha...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > 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 > > > >
