I don't use the wrapper until a project is final or I have to share it. I am almost always on the bleeding edge as far as Gradle versions. I keep all of my projects on the most recent Gradle version when I work on them, often on the latest release candidate (unless I encounter problems - which I want to be aware of so I can report them or fix my scripts). The wrapper just adds overhead for my day to day usage. I don't need a zillion versions of Gradle cached on my system. If the project is to be shared, then I add the wrapper because then it makes sense.
My NB settings are such that I use a version of Gradle at a fixed location via Custom Gradle Distribution, which is just a symlink to the latest version of Gradle that I have downloaded. That symlink is also on my path. So I'm using the latest Gradle in NB and from the command line, unless I invoke the wrapper instead. So I don't want the Custom Gradle Distribution option to go away. The Gradle User Home option is useless to me. I don't understand why I would ever want to change that. That's just asking for trouble as then my command line builds would be doing something different from my NB builds and I don't want that. [image: image.png] Scott On Sat, Feb 11, 2023 at 2:39 AM Laszlo Kishalmi <laszlo.kisha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > I'd like to collect some feedback on the Gradle Distribution Settings > (Tools > Options > Java > Gradle > Execution Panel > Distribution Section) > > Over the years, Gradle evolved and some usage patterns has changed. > > 8 years ago, Gradle Daemon was in incubation phase. It could took a few > (5-10) seconds to start a daemon especially with HDDs. > People usually installed some latest Gradle and used that globally, > wrapper was not yet popular. > > I think the following settings are obsolete: > - Start Gradle Daemon on IDE Start: Most people are using wrappers, > so a daemon with the IDE defined distribution, just wasting resources. > - Install Gradle Runtime Silently (Project trust is fine for that) > > The following options are questionable: > Custom Gradle Distribution. (I think I've used only once around 2.3 > when I built my own Gradle distribution due to a bug in Gradle) > > The Gradle Distribution Selector Combo Box is over engineered. I would > replace that and the > "Prefer to Use Gradle Wrapper that Comes with the Project" check box in > a simple combo with elements: > Wrapper > 8.0 > 7.6 > .... > 3.0 > > I would drop the selection below at least 3.0 (Gradle 2.x are ancient, > and there are a few versions which are not working well with NetBeans) > > So at the end I would keep the Gradle Home and the combined distribution > selector. Probably move that to root project level as well. > > What do you think? > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > > >
