OpenNLP 2.0.0

[sergey-tihon]

We currently cannot upgrade to OpenNLP 2.0.0 because is it compiled with JDK 11 but IKVM.NET currently support only JDK 8

Build-Jdk-Spec: 11
Bundle-RequiredExecutionEnvironment: JavaSE-1.8

Issues for tracking progress

• Java > 8? ikvmnet/ikvm#119
• JDK 9 ikvmnet/ikvm#120
• Improve error message when class file format (version) is not supported (e.g. higher than 52) ikvmnet/ikvm#127

[GeorgeS2019]

@wasabii
When do you think YOU would accelerate to support JDK 11 :-)

[sergey-tihon]

@GeorgeS2019 This path will not be easy

[GeorgeS2019]

@sergey-tihon you need to join his DISCORD to see that HE has a working Visual Studio 2022 compiling Java!
His next step is to develop ikvmcsproj template and java code intellisense.
He just need a bit more "support" to make more magic happens :-)

[sergey-tihon]

fyi, this project has working sample for MavenReference - #18

[wasabii]

@sergey-tihon Neat.

It would be useful to have some other people besides myself understanding how the NuGet publishing of projects that contain MavenReferences works. It's a complicated thing to reason through, and could have consequences I haven't considered.

[NightOwl888]

True. I have been meaning to put together a test to build a NuGet package that depends on both a MavenReference and a PackageReferece that depends on MavenReference to see if its consumers correctly build both MavenReferences. I am sure transitive dependencies work on their own, but have doubts that multiple levels of transient dependencies will properly merge in all consumers regardless of depth.

[sergey-tihon]

It would be useful to have some other people besides myself understanding how the NuGet publishing of projects that contain MavenReferences works.

I am honest myself with myself, I do not know how it work😁. I've built all packages by hand from F# script. Project with MavenReferences was added to test to check that auto-compiled dlls are correct and existing tests pass with them.

@wasabii Do you think that there is a need to rebuild & republish packages to NuGet? Or consumers should use MavenReferences directly in the their projects?

[wasabii]

Everybody should use MavenReference if they depends on a library in Maven.

Nobody should be manually downloading and repacking libraries that the author already published to Maven. That leads to conflicts.