Use JDK 8 as default for Netbeans config

[Doug Simon]

I imagine we actually want the javaCompliance for each project specified in mx/projects. Can you please try out this patch instead and let me know if it works:

$ hg diff mxtool/mx.py
diff -r a53c26c989d0 mxtool/mx.py
--- a/mxtool/mx.py	Tue Aug 05 20:57:38 2014 +0200
+++ b/mxtool/mx.py	Tue Aug 05 21:44:40 2014 +0200
@@ -3930,8 +3930,8 @@
 # Space-separated list of extra javac options
 javac.compilerargs=
 javac.deprecation=false
-javac.source=1.7
-javac.target=1.7
+javac.source=""" + str(p.javaCompliance) + """
+javac.target=""" + str(p.javaCompliance) + """
 javac.test.classpath=\\
     ${javac.classpath}:\\
     ${build.classes.dir}

-Doug

On Aug 5, 2014, at 9:32 PM, Eric Caspole <eric.caspole at amd.com> wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> I would like to request that the netbeans IDE config be completely changed to 1.8 as shown below. As use of Streams/Lambdas has crept into Graal, without this you have to manually set those projects to JDK 8 in the project settings box for each individual project which is a huge time waster.
> Thanks,
> Eric
> 
> 
> $ hg diff mxtool/mx.py
> diff -r ea318d3ac9cd mxtool/mx.py
> --- a/mxtool/mx.py	Mon Aug 04 12:10:27 2014 -0400
> +++ b/mxtool/mx.py	Tue Aug 05 15:29:05 2014 -0400
> @@ -3928,8 +3928,8 @@
> # Space-separated list of extra javac options
> javac.compilerargs=
> javac.deprecation=false
> -javac.source=1.7
> -javac.target=1.7
> +javac.source=1.8
> +javac.target=1.8
> javac.test.classpath=\\
>     ${javac.classpath}:\\
>     ${build.classes.dir}