Hi, Am Sonntag, dem 06.03.2022 um 16:06 +0100 schrieb Jaroslav Tulach: > > NB 12.6 and 13 itself only support JDK 11 and 17, if some of it > > still > > runs on 8 its a coincidence. Nobody should run the IDE on 8. > > I do. I am running my NetBeans on JDK8 based GraalVM. And it is not a > coincidence - it is an important use-case for my business unit.
It would be great if Oracle would follow its own decisions. The development of the JDK is mostly driven by Oracle, so it is a bit surprising, that collegues don't talk and place the burden of maintenance on outside projects. Nobody forced the JDK developers to disrupt the whole Java ecosystem. Nobody forces the JDK developers to remove support for older JVMs in the compiler, nobody forces the JDK developers to produce a compiler, that can only run on the latest JDK. It is an internal decision of your Business Unit to remain on a clearly deprecated JDK. The moment you can't compile for JDK 8 anymore with the currently available JDK IMHO we _have_ to drop support for JDK 8 or at least builds targetting it. If you can't build a product with a current tool chain, it is dead. If people need JDK8 builds, the code is there, but in 2022 I don't see any use-cases for JDK 8 apart from legacy installations. My 2 cents, Matthias --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
