On 23.10.21 08:28, Jaroslav Tulach wrote:
The plan
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Overview%3A+nb-javac
mentions in section "Using JDK 17 javac Instead":
"NetBeans project can suggest/require people to use JDK17 to run Apache
NetBeans IDE"
...
"Requiring the latest JDK to execute the IDE ... might ... be a good enough
story for Apache NetBeans IDE".
FWIW, my personal opinion is that the ability to run using javac from JDK
is highly desirable. ... using javac from
(new enough and similar enough) JDKs should be possible, I think.
+1
Making sure this option isn't broken, and hopefully has a better UI,
is why I think we should punt this forward to NB 13.
OK, seeing the overall desire to run NetBeans with "new enough and similar
enough" JDK javac, I am going to focus on the automatic transformation of nb-
javac, but I am not going to propose changes to the way we deliver nb-javac to
users. Let such change be some future project's decision.
Don't know what others think but I believe this might be the best option
(also taking the other mail into account which lists the 3 compiler
variants).
But if automatic-nb-javac is really just javac with minimal changes to
allow a lower bytecode level, I think it should only be enabled if the
JDK version is lower than the highest JDK version NB supports at the
time of release.
Lets say future NB 14 supports JDK 19 at the time of release. NB 14
would enable automatic-nb-javac on JDK 18 and lower, on 19 (and all
unsupported versions after that), the JDK's javac would be used,
automatic-nb-javac module would not load. (its basically identical on 19
- so why load it, and on 20+ it wouldn't be of much use anyway)
what do you think?
-mbien
I'm also hoping if/when we do include nb-javac by default, it will
never again be a cause of release delays! :-)
Of course. Generating new nb-javac binary shall be matter of changing few
lines of code and pressing the build button.
-jt
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