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[GitHub] jlahoda commented on issue #572: java.source.base: Fix for Java 11,
update args, swap import
jlahoda commented on issue #572: java.source.base: Fix for Java 11, update args, swap import
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-netbeans/pull/572#issuecomment-414105907
I'd like to point out that there is a huge difference between the supported/working build requirements and supported/working runtime requirements.
Currently, the build needs JDK 8, and the minimal runtime is JDK 8 as well. But the IDE can (at least somehow) run on (dev builds of) JDK 11/12 - I use these runtimes. (Although it will be necessary to do some changes to keep the IDE running on 12 in the future, I am afraid.)
We could change the build process to run on JDK 10/11 (and keep the minimal runtime env as JDK 8, or not), but someone needs to do the work.
Dropping JDK 8 as the minimal runtime environment is not a decision that could be done in a PR - that needs to be discussed on the mailing list, and I suspect there may be folks that still want to run NB on JDK 8, for various reasons.
Regarding Unsafe and --release - as I noted, when I was thinking of this, the idea was to use reflection. I am fairly sure one can use --release 8 and compile code that invokes Unsafe using reflection on JDK 8. Please see classes like java.lang.reflect.Method.
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