neilcsmith-net commented on PR #5609: URL: https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/5609#issuecomment-1477533229
With all the Oracle people talking up the benefit of nb-javac here, you'd have thought that developing and delivering from Oracle and in an Oracle namespace, as originally agreed with ASF legal for us to distribute it, wouldn't have been that hard of a position to achieve! :wink: A backported compiler is a positive thing (it's a shame `javac` isn't developed like this). While it remains "unofficial", nb-javac remains a problem and something there is always going to be some push to move away from, not deeper ingrain into the platform. > I need to remind: people who _use NetBeans_ to produce code (as opposed to people _developing NetBeans_), and also people _using NetBeans as tooling platform_ have very different _business_ requirements that require them to run on just specific JDKs (even the IDE), and have hard requirements for the tooling platform's environment The former "producing code" people I'm less convinced by, at least judging by IntelliJ's popularity! The latter "tooling platform" people I am, and why I keep reiterating the platform is the entire framework. Agree a lot of this conversation should go on the mailing list though (and realise me adding to it is probably not helping! :smile:) -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
