Re: Netbeans Stable Support for OpenJDK 17?

2021-11-17 Thread Neil C Smith
On Wed, 17 Nov 2021 at 11:55, Giles Winstanley wrote: > W.r.t. voting on dev-list, I'm unsure if my use-case is sufficiently > robust as a NB test to warrant a counting vote, Only members of the NetBeans PMC have a counting vote. It's the picking up of problems / regressions before we get to vot

Re: Netbeans Stable Support for OpenJDK 17?

2021-11-17 Thread Giles Winstanley
Excellent, thanks Neil, I may go grab that later and see how it goes. W.r.t. voting on dev-list, I'm unsure if my use-case is sufficiently robust as a NB test to warrant a counting vote, as I really don't rely on much of its feature set day-to-day, but I'll see how it goes and make a choice :)

Re: Netbeans Stable Support for OpenJDK 17?

2021-11-17 Thread Neil C Smith
On Wed, 17 Nov 2021 at 08:18, Giles Winstanley wrote: > I use Gradle 7.3 as my build system, and the main hiccup I've encountered is > that NB tooling uses Gradle 7.0 under the hood, which isn't yet JDK17 > compatible (related to bytecode manipulation in underlying Groovy version). > If you enc

Re: Netbeans Stable Support for OpenJDK 17?

2021-11-17 Thread Giles Winstanley
I use Gradle 7.3 as my build system, and the main hiccup I've encountered is that NB tooling uses Gradle 7.0 under the hood, which isn't yet JDK17 compatible (related to bytecode manipulation in underlying Groovy version). If you encounter this NB will raise heaps of errors and fail you. I can'

RE: Netbeans Stable Support for OpenJDK 17?

2021-11-16 Thread Rob Walker
If you start from a ZIP distribution, you can launch using any Java version with your own Java installs e.g. the BAT setup I use when on Windows: cd %NB_HOME%\bin start netbeans64.exe --jdkhome %JAVA_HOME% --userdir %NB_USER_DIR% --cachedir %NB_CACHE_DIR% --console suppress My various _HOME env