Github user ctubbsii commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/accumulo/pull/66#issuecomment-176943761
Looking at the changes, I'm reminded why we didn't do this before: a lot of
maven plugins assume that generated files will not appear in a place other than
target, or if they do, they will appear as dotfiles.
Netbeans has the unfortunate behavior of using configuration files plopped
right in the middle of the source tree, which are not dotfiles. This can cause
some very unexpected and undesirable behavior in some plugins, especially
packaging/assembly plugins, which might create "dirty" artifacts containing
these configuration files.
They might also not get properly ignored by a wide variety of plugins. I
say this not to object, but only to document that we need to pay attention to
these files, if they make it into the source tree, and we need to be extra
careful to check that they do not exist in any of our released artifacts.
(which is an easy enough check to do).
It would be nice if Netbeans allowed putting these files outside the source
tree, or if it wrote them as dotfiles. Perhaps that's an option? If not, I'd
encourage Netbeans developers to poke upstream about doing that in the future.
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