Re: [jdt-dev] About Y-Builds (was Re: 4.35 Y-Build: Y20250111-1000 - BUI

[Stephan Herrmann <stephan.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx>]

Am 18.01.25 um 21:36 schrieb Mickael Istria:
> Please see https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2018/10/preview-raw-string-literals- 
> in-intellij-idea-2018-3/ <https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2018/10/preview-raw- 
> string-literals-in-intellij-idea-2018-3/> for instance. For at least 6 years, 
> JetBrains has managed to (explicitly) ship support for not yet released Java 
> features (with some disclaimer) and so far so good for them.

Nice, but JetBrains won't help me if I get into trouble with Oracle. And maybe 
JetBrains even has a special contract with Oracle that allows this?
With the above you might, however, be able to get a corresponding statement from 
Eclipse Foundation legal staff. That's whom I trust.

Once that were settled we'd be only left with the process problem: if people 
start developing parts like DOM / core.manipulation targeting Java X+1 features 
in master, while other implementation for the same Java version is being 
developed in a beta branch, then the situation will be much crazier than it ever 
was in the past. In my view such uncoordinated development would actually feel 
close to a project fork. Is that what you want?

Are you really unable to find any open tasks for making IDE support for Java 23 
great? Spoiler: perhaps you won't even notice anything new in Java 24 ;-P

thanks,
Stephan