> On Feb 27, 2020, at 8:22 PM, Laszlo Kishalmi <laszlo.kisha...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I just would like to share the progress of my secret project: build NetBeans
> with Gradle
>
> I'm still not sure how far I would like to go with this experiment, but if
> nothing else it could be a good test data for the Gradle Support.
>
> I had the following milestones in my mind:
>
> M0: Done: Get the project dependencies straight, without having circular
> dependencies: Right now it has 813 sub-projects in the known clusters
>
> M1: Done: Get the modules in the Platform cluster (and the harness cluster)
> compileable.
>
> M2: TBD: Make the unit tests pass for the Platform Cluster.
>
> M3: TBD: Make the output of the Platform cluster actually runable.
>
> How it works:
>
> I have a specific NetBeans Gradle Plugin which reads the
> nbproject/clusters.properties and each module nbproject/project.xml file to
> get the dependency configuration. other configuration items are read from the
> nbproject.properties file. In theory we do not have to do any changes for an
> ordinary module it shall work out of the box without even having a
> build.gradle file. There are however some special cases where build.gradle
> file is required. Unfortunately there are some dependency tangles between the
> modules causing circular dependency in Gradle. In these cases I had to split
> up the modules between test and source projects.
>
> If anyone would like to have a look:
>
> please clone the gradle2 branch of my fork:
> https://github.com/lkishalmi/netbeans
>
> The Gradle build right now needs the help to fetch the external dependencies:
> ant download-all-extbins
>
> But after that one:
>
> ./gradlew buildPlatformCluster -x check
>
> shall work. (It currently requires JDK 11 or up)
This is great. Big +1. Getting the official build transitioned to a modern
build tool is an excellent idea.
Scott
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