That's excellent news -- i.e., this will provide support for working with JDK 14 code in the Java editor in NetBeans 12.0 without being required to run NetBeans 12.0 itself on JDK 14.
Gj On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 8:16 AM Arvind Aprameya <[email protected]> wrote: > Wanted to keep you all updated nb-javac for NB12.0 will be released in > about few week's time . > > regards, > Arvind > -----Original Message----- > From: Jan Lahoda <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, April 6, 2020 10:22 AM > To: Apache NetBeans <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Forced to download nb-javac even when not selected > > On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 2:48 PM Eirik Bakke <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > over the past few years, the gap between NetBeans+nb-javac and > > NetBeans+recent JDK javac got much smaller > > > > That's good to hear. In particular, is there a fundamental reason why > > Compile on Save can not be supported from the JDK javac? > > > > No fundamental reason, just no one had enough time to actually write that. > > Jan > > > > -- Eirik > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jan Lahoda <[email protected]> > > Sent: Friday, April 3, 2020 2:12 AM > > To: Apache NetBeans <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: Forced to download nb-javac even when not selected > > > > On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 5:10 PM Eirik Bakke <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > I'm concerned that "downplaying" nb-javac will discourage us from > > > maintaining it. > > > > > > > I guess I think we should reduce the intensity of NetBeans pushing the > > user to download nb-javac, which I think is what Geertjan says. There > > is a number of reasons to that - over the past few years, the gap > > between > > NetBeans+nb-javac and NetBeans+recent JDK javac got much smaller, > > NetBeans+having > > nb-javac is in some cases even undesirable (as NetBeans is still using > > the JDK 13-based nb-javac, no JDK 14 language features are available, > > AFAIK), etc. So pushing users hard to install nb-javac while they run > > on JDK 14 does not seem very good to me. (What to do when running on > > JDK 13 is unclear to me.) > > > > Jan > > > > > > > I understand that the JDK-based javac is the way to go in the long > term. > > > But http://wiki.netbeans.org/JavacDiff lists a lot of good reasons > > > why nb-javac had to exist, and until all of these requirements are > > > met by the new approach, it seems dangerous to abandon nb-javac. In > > > the short-term, the most high-quality solution would seem to be to > > > stick with nb-javac, updating and fixing bugs in the latter while > > > waiting for JDK-based javac to catch up feature-wise. > > > > > > What is our strategy here? > > > > > > -- Eirik > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Geertjan Wielenga <[email protected]> > > > Sent: Thursday, April 2, 2020 4:09 AM > > > To: dev <[email protected]> > > > Subject: Forced to download nb-javac even when not selected > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > >
