> So I vote for NB 12 to drop support for Java 11
Java 11 was released less than a year ago... _way_ too early to stop
supporting. New Java versions often introduce new bugs in various areas, which
prevent upgrading every application on every release. "If it ain't broken,
don't fix it."
For ex
Note that you could still have a modern JDK with JavaFX, eg.
https://www.azul.com/downloads/zulu-community/?&version=java-11-lts&os=macos&architecture=x86-64-bit&package=jdk-fx
I had to use it this year as it was the simplest way of getting some
JavaFX project to run.
Sounds to me that OpenFX wou
On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 4:52 AM Neil C Smith wrote:
> eliminate the annoyance that is friend
> dependencies (or at least provide ways to externally override)
https://github.com/jglick/yenta lets you override this. YMMV
A long time ago I wrote up
http://wiki.netbeans.org/NbmPackageStability to dis
In a sense isn’t this really a flavor of incompatible libraries? Say for
example junit 3/4/5 with each needing separate instances of the dependencies
being defined and added in some way?
Or maybe should ask how was it handle switching from JavaFX 1(JavaFX script
version) vs JavaFX 2 (redone was
NetBeans needs to support any Java version that has not reached EOL. Most
production environments use LTS versions and as long as they are are
supported by Oracle they need to be supported by NB.
On Sun, Aug 25, 2019, 8:21 AM Chuck Davis wrote:
> At the pace Java is moving no reasonable person w
At the pace Java is moving no reasonable person would expect ANYTHING based
upon Java to forever be backwardly compatible.
In my not so humble opinion we need a clean break occasionally where we say
the current Java environment requires new capabilities in the IDE and
version x.x will no longer wo
Hi all,
What to do with JavaFX and OpenJFX?
Should we continue making projects and samples available for JDK 8 JavaFX
in the New Project dialog, because some users may be using JDK 8, or should
we only have projects and samples for OpenJFX in the New Project dialog?
The full situation is describ
