On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 18:41:13 GMT, Michael Strauß <mstra...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> PREVIEW-FEATURES.md line 32: >> >>> 30: application has not opted into the use of preview features. All >>> preview features have equal status >>> 31: in any given JavaFX release and can not be enabled individually. >>> 32: >> >> do you want to talk about similarities and differences between this and jdk >> preview features https://openjdk.org/jeps/12 ? > > This definition is, as you point out, largely lifted from JEP 12. Aside from > wording changes, here are some key differences: > > * JEP 12 assumes that a feature should be finished within two releases. I > think for JavaFX, being just a framework and not a programming language, it > is sensible to assume that we can finish features in the next release; that > is, a preview feature that is introduced in JavaFX N should be finished in > N+1. > * JEP 12 says that a preview feature should be at least 95% "done". I think > we can be a little bit more risk-tolerant here, which is why I lowered this > number to 90% "done". > > The general idea is that preview features in JavaFX should be faster and > accept a little bit more risk than preview features in the JDK. The space of people who know what a JDK preview is is larger than that of JFX people. I think we might want to point to JEP12 and explicitly explain the difference, that's all. ------------- PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/1359#discussion_r1941721364
