Apologies, I forgot to send an email related to this defect when I raised it the last day. :(
First and foremost no matter what we do with nb-javac, its clear that the user hasn't selected to install it, so it makes no sense whatsoever why it would then attempt to be installed. Regards John On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 at 09:09, Geertjan Wielenga <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've encountered this one too: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-4078 > > i.e., I'm running NB on JDK 14, I do not select the nb-javac checkbox. I > click Download and Activate. > > And then I am shown that the nb-javac editing support library will be > downloaded, even though I did not select it. > > Aside from that, for 12.0, should we downplay the usage of nb-javac as > much as possible and not make it so prominently available -- we should be > encouraging the usage of the latest LTS, which is 11 and not 8. > > Thoughts? > > Gj >
