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

Hello all...

Does this update means that source level of NB itself has been changed to
java 8?

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 4:36 PM, Martin Balin <[email protected]>
wrote:

> This option is available. We might add it in the future.
> Martin
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> On 1.12.2015 15:59, Eric Barboni wrote:
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> Hi,
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> Thanks for the change.
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>  Is option permit.jdk9.builds=true intended to work as part of the change
> or will this be possible later on ?
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> Regards
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> Eric Barboni
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> *De :* Martin Balin [mailto:[email protected]
> <[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
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> Hello,
> NetBeans dev build was changed yesterday 11/30 to be built using JDK8
> http://wiki.netbeans.org/WorkingWithNetBeansSources and jdk9 branch was
> merged to main-silver and all team repos.
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> Regards Martin Balin
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> On 18.11.2015 15:51, Martin Balin wrote:
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> Hello all NB developers,
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> On *Monday, Nov 30th* there will be a change of NetBeans dev build to be
> run on JDK8.
> The reasons for this change:
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>    1. JDK7 is no longer publicly supported, JDK8 is the available and
>    supported version
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>    1. Number of users running NB on JDK7 is going down significantly
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>    1. JDK8 compilation allows NetBeans to run with JDK9 EA builds
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> What will follow:
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>    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
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> Comments, questions, let me know
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> Thank you Martin Balin,
> Development Manager
> NetBeans Java support team
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