Re: apache-maven: bump java version? & looking for SWT for NetBSD

[Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost>]

Thomas Klausner <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> I was trying to compile https://github.com/a-sit/PDF-Over, a Java
> program, for NetBSD. It uses maven to build, but maven didn't allow
> building it because it doesn't support Java 21.
>
> That is fix by changing
> USE_JAVA2=      7
> to
> USE_JAVA2=      21
> in its Makefile, which changes the used JDK from 7 to 21.
>
> Does anyone have a problem with changing that?

Wouldn't we want maven to use whatever was the default JDK for that
pkgsrc installation?

Or whatever JDK version had been specified by a Java package that
needs maven.

Having the maven package itself explicitly pick a JDK version feels
wrong to me.

> I couldn't get the program to compile, since it wants to use SWT and
> there is no SWT for NetBSD (at least not on Maven Central). Does
> anyone have a SWT for NetBSD?

There is wip/eclipse but it doesn't seem to build anything natively.