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[GitHub] [netbeans] neilcsmith-net edited a comment on pull request #2137: Move JavaFX related functionality to JavaFX cluster.
neilcsmith-net edited a comment on pull request #2137:
URL: https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/2137#issuecomment-631052922
@matthiasblaesing we had some dispensation to allow nb-javac to be required early on, and there has been a lot of work to make it more optional. The move from recommended to required for JavaFX was done without full discussion. There was some justification to nb-javac that people are accepting javac to use Java support, which is not necessarily the case with JavaFX. Moving to JavaFX cluster makes sense there.
But that's not the key problem - FOD doesn't handle a requirement not being there gracefully.
Whether people want to opt out of installation by choice, or because they can't connect to the download server (there are multiple JIRA issues on this - 3805 and 3810 at least), they need to be able to cancel and not have the IDE lock up and become unusable.
Yes this issue probably does exist for JDK 8 with regard to nb-javac, and may need fixing there too, but making that issue happen on every JDK isn't an improvement.
Interestingly, having JavaFX required in FOD also seems to be the cause of https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-3732 bizarrely - see https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r7ce0738e6bcdfa37c7500ca4b4dc7c82104732d57c8c5cb6cb08bc02%40%3Cusers.netbeans.apache.org%3E
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