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

This option is available. We might add it in the future.
Martin

On 1.12.2015 15:59, Eric Barboni wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the change.
>
>  Is option permit.jdk9.builds=true intended to work as part of the 
> change or will this be possible later on ?
>
> Regards
>
> Eric Barboni
>
> *De :*Martin Balin [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Envoyé :* mardi 1 décembre 2015 11:49
> *À :* [email protected]
> *Objet :* [nbdev] Done - NetBeans dev build change to JDK8 & merge of 
> JDK9 branch
>
> Hello,
> NetBeans dev build was changed yesterday 11/30 to be built using JDK8 
> http://wiki.netbeans.org/WorkingWithNetBeansSourcesand jdk9 branch was 
> merged to main-silver and all team repos.
>
> Regards Martin Balin
>
> On 18.11.2015 15:51, Martin Balin wrote:
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>     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
>