Again, this will be fixed in Beta 4. What you are doing in userdir is the equivalent to going to the Plugin Manager and uninstalling nb-javac.
This behavior is identical to previous releases and will be fixed in Beta 4. Gj On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 at 22:36, Kenneth Fogel <kfo...@dawsoncollege.qc.ca> wrote: > Then why doesn't NetBeans take no for an answer. It now shows as a > notification on the status bar. It should no longer be a default. When NB > wants to install the FX components it also installs nb-javac, no option not > to. Then we have to go into userdir and clean it out. With that done it now > pesters us with a notification. Using Beta 3. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Geertjan Wielenga <geert...@apache.org> > Sent: April 19, 2020 1:49 PM > To: dev@netbeans.apache.org > Subject: Re: Can we say good-bye to nb-javac > > Pretty much the first result when you google the term “nb-javac”: > > https://blogs.apache.org/netbeans/entry/what-s-nb-javac-in > > Gj > > On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 at 19:36, Geertjan Wielenga <geert...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > > > This has been discussed at VERY great length at this point on this > > mailing list. > > > > In 12.0, from beta 4 onwards, only if you’re running on JDK 8 will you > > need to install nb-javac. > > > > Please spend some time looking through this mailing list around this > > topic, including the purpose of nb-javac, everything has been repeated > > enough times at this point. > > > > Gj > > > > > > On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 at 19:13, Kenneth Fogel > > <kfo...@dawsoncollege.qc.ca> > > wrote: > > > >> Just loaded up Beta 3 and of course it desperately want to load > >> nb-javac > >> 2 (possibly 2.1). Loaded up a project that used Java 14 record and it > >> declared it an error with no hope for redemption. Deleted all the > >> nb-javac files from the C:\devapp\NB\USERDIR\12.0-beta3\modules > >> folder (I prefer my USERDIR and CACHE where I can find them easily) > >> and then NB was happy with Java 14's compiler and with records after > >> asking me if I wanted to use preview features.. > >> > >> Could someone point me to where I could learn what the advantage of > >> nb-javac is over javac? > >> > >> Ken > >> > >> >
