Re: NetBeans dev build change to JDK8 & merge of JDK9 branch

Greetings,

The issue"can not build main-silver with jdk8" [2] below is not marked 
fix and still fails as of a few minutes ago with a freshly updated 
repository. Seems this should be fixed before the change to jdk8 is made.

It is not explicitly stated that jdk8 constructs, e.g. lambda 
expressions, are OK; I suppose that goes without saying...

I guess the other issue, [1] below, doesn't matter since it is about a 
failing condition when building with jdk7.

-ernie

On 11/18/2015 9:09 AM, Eric Barboni wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I’m happy to see this move to jdk8.
>
> As a NetCat member I try to build often the NetBeans sources because 
> it’s faster than to wait for builds from CI server.
>
> On windows it was not possible to anticipate build on jdk8 (with the 
> permit.jdk8.builds=true flag)
>
> . This lead to two issue [1] and [2] that should be considered as 
> ‘fixed’ by the work of Tomas.
>
> I tried to provide a patch on [2] that was based on the ${nb_all} 
> properties instead of ${basedir} as it was done this wayon all 
> projects [3] using the bootclasspath.prepend stuff (for coherence)
>
> Thanks a lot for this jdk build upgrade
>
> Best Regards
>
> Eric Barboni
>
> [1]https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=250848
>
> [2]https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=251957
>
> [3]
>
> j2ee.ejbverification\nbproject\project.properties
>
> java.hints\nbproject\ project.properties
>
> web.jsf\nbproject\ project.properties
>
> *De :*Martin Balin [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Envoyé :* mercredi 18 novembre 2015 15:52
> *À :* [email protected]
> *Objet :* [nbdev] NetBeans dev build change to JDK8 & merge of JDK9 branch
>
> Hello all NB developers,
>
> On *Monday, Nov 30th* there will be a change of NetBeans dev build to 
> be run on JDK8.
> The reasons for this change:
>
>  1. JDK7 is no longer publicly supported, JDK8 is the available and
>     supported version
>      1. Number of users running NB on JDK7 is going down significantly
>  2. JDK8 compilation allows NetBeans to run with JDK9 EA builds
>
> Java 9 is under development and we have more and more users who ask us 
> they want to experiment with NB on top of JDK9 or use JDK9 as NB Java 
> Platform. Therefore, we will also merge an early support for JDK9 EA 
> builds (https://jdk9.java.net/download/) to Dev builds. To satisfy 
> this we are switching the build to JDK8. To be able to use jrtfs.jar 
> from NB. Changes in this merge, approx 142 *.java files, should not 
> impact modules outside Java support too much. This merge does not 
> support "JDK9 EA with Project Jigsaw" builds.
>
> Tomas Zezula fixed the build to run on JDK8. We work with selected 
> developers for each team repo to make sure tests are running as well 
> on JDK8.
>
> What will follow:
>
>  1. We will confirm the JDK8 build switch date no later than on Fri 11/27
>  2. On Mon 11/30 we will ask all developers to hold on pushes to their
>     team repos to allow faster propagation of JDK8 build and merger of
>     JDK9 EA through team repos and main-silver
>  3. Likely Development build of NetBeans will not be available for
>     several days.
>  4. Be ready to fix some issues in your tests/code caused by new build
>     JDK8 or by JDK9 branch merge
>
> Comments, questions, let me know
>
> Thank you Martin Balin,
> Development Manager
> NetBeans Java support team
>