Please don’t omit Gradle from this discussion. Scott
> On Aug 10, 2020, at 12:06 PM, Will Hartung <willhart...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Ant has been the historic underlying build tool for Netbeans projects, but > over the years, not only has NB been a very good companion with Maven, > Maven is also much more popular industry wide. > > There was a comment on the user list recently about Java FX, and one reply > was, paraphrasing, "the best way to use Java FX was to use Maven". > > I was also looking at the legacy NB Platform tutorials, which use Ant, but > certainly need some updating. > > But that brought the question. Should one style of build be promoted over > the other, are both systems "faithfully and fully supported", or is Ant > going to perhaps slowly die on the vine of disinterest? > > Is there any internal mandate of ensuring compatibility between the two > build system, especially in terms of ensuring high level things like > wizards and whatnot work for both systems? If someone adds a new feature, > contrived, "Create a Microprofile web service", is the project obligated > (as much as it's obligated to do anything) to create a wizard for both Ant > and Maven, or is it acceptable to only use one mechanism? > > Just curious if there's any formal position on the two systems and their > status within the NB environment today. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.apache.org For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
