[GitHub] [netbeans] matthiasblaesing edited a comment on pull request #2783: Replacing manually built javac with Maven one

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matthiasblaesing edited a comment on pull request #2783:
URL: https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/2783#issuecomment-791555095


   It would be good to know the full story. @jlahoda could you please give a summary here? This sounds as if building against nbjavac 15 will make it a hard dependency for Java Editing on prior JDKs. This would cement the dependency on a GPL binary.
   
   My gut feeling: We don't get a hard dependency on nbjavac/jdk15, but because we compile against a more recent API, we might use features, only available on later versions of javac. It might be possible to prevent this by using something like animal sniffer (https://www.mojohaus.org/animal-sniffer/animal-sniffer/index.html) to detect incompatibilities.


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