On 9/20/2010 at 8:24 AM, Grant Ingersoll wrote: > At any rate, the big problem w/ Maven and Lucene is not that generate- > maven-artifacts doesn't work, it's that the POM templates aren't kept in > sync. However, I think we now have a solution for that thanks to Steve > and Robert's work to make it easier to bring Lucene into IntelliJ. In > other words, that process does much of what is needed for Maven, so it > should be relatively straightforward to have it automatically generate the > templates, too. In fact, it would be just as easy for that project to > simply produce POM files (which are well understood and have a published > spec) instead of creating the IntelliJ project files, which are not well > understood and not publicly spec'd and subject to change w/ every release > and simply have IntelliJ suck in the POM file since IntelliJ supports that > very, very well.
Unfortunately, LUCENE-2611 does not automatically generate IntelliJ setup files - they are static, just like the POM template files. I think it's possible, using an Ant BuildListener-extending class, to do automatic generation, but I haven't attempted it yet. I'll open an issue. Steve
