Hey Victor,, of Course the Folders are needed, but sure maybe not that hidden. Afail, IntelliJ, WebStorm, PHPStorm or vscode, makes the way like I already know it from a lot of other enviroment stuff, they use a .folder for the stuff. So .intelliJ, .webstorm, .vscode so this is more common as .vmware makes this or .git. Sure those Folders are still hidden, but we are developers, we should know about it or we should find it via Google easily to see those Folders if needed.
So maybe this could be am enhancement to have the Folder here: C:\Users\Me\.netbeans instead of C:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\NetBeans and C:\Users\Me\AppData\Roaming\NetBeans. The plugin Cache eraser works quite nice within NetBeans, I tested it, but sure, it could Show you the index and how big it is and what files are inside of it and and and. But it is working as expected. Cheers Chris Von: Victor Williams Stafusa da Silva Gesendet: Dienstag, 20. März 2018 22:40 An: [email protected] Betreff: Re: Netbeans cache and configurations @cowwoc I was debugging and hacking lombok, and so making Netbeans crazy. I won't go through the details in this thread to not hijack it and I will answer something in the other one soon. However (lombok aside) it is rare for me to get Netbeans confused about something, it was much more common some years ago. Also, I understand about the security stuff, but I guess that this should be optional. If Alice and Bob cooperatively programs in the same computer both with their own users, then if Alice installs a (say) Jenkins plugin, Bob shouldn't be required to download it once again. Also, if Alice compiles that maven project with millions of dependencies that downloads the internet, it would be a pain if later, Bob have to do it all over again. So, maybe there could be a setting somewhere to say (a: "I use Netbeans exclusively within my user account"; b: "I want to share my Netbeans with other users accounts of this computer"). @Antonio I'm somewhat a newbie here and don't know yet how to file a JIRA issue, but will find out how to do that. It seems that we have two issues here: the cache-purge issue and the user-sharing issue, so I would file two. Wouldn't it be marked as a dup to @Валера's bug on bugzilla? Also, I downloaded the old plugin and gave a look at it and it is not what I expected because: (1) It asks the user to tell the path where the Netbeans cache is instead of finding it out that by itself; (2) It do not knows or care if the user are really telling the truth and will delete all the files in the given path, even if it has nothing to do with the Netbeans cache; (3) It takes no measures whatsoever to protect NetBeans from shooting itself in the foot or something like that other than just asking the user to save everything and warning that it could cause abnormal IDE termination; (4) It also relies on an (optional) external file unlocker program that should be provided by the user to ensure forcefully deletion of files. Victor Williams Stafusa da Silva 2018-03-20 18:28 GMT-03:00 Валера Солдатов <[email protected]>: > Also we had https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=267606 > > 20.03.2018 23:33, Antonio пишет: > > Some comments below >> >> On 20/03/18 19:01, Victor Williams Stafusa da Silva wrote: >> >>> [big complaint removed for the sake of space] >>> >> >> Please file an issue in JIRA and label it as an enhancement. >> >> >>> So, I'll question if there is a easy way to purge the cache from the >>> inside >>> of the IDE that I'd overlloked so far for whichever reason? If not, would >>> it be a good idea to add that? Also, is there a way to rate-limit it to >>> avoid it consuming too much disk space? >>> >> >> It's probably not easy to purge the cache while running. We could devise >> a way to delete/clean it up when the IDE exits, or when it starts. >> >> >>> I am very far from knowning the gory details of NetBeans internal stuff, >>> so >>> I am afraid that I am just talking bullshit here and this is a big >>> misunderstanding, sorry if this is the case. However, even if this is the >>> case, I would likely to know nonetheless. >>> >> >> This is not bullshit. It's a nice feature, IMHO. >> >> Some other IDEs have this feature as well. XCode, for instance, is able >> to delete some internal directories it uses, and that get in the way _all_ >> the time. >> >> I'd like to have a feature where you could see how much cache you're >> using and to remove it somehow. Also a list of previous NetBeans version >> directories could be provided, with proper delete buttons also. >> >> >>> It is not just me that hit this issue. Google for "netbeans cache" and >>> most >>> of the results will be from people asking about how to clear the cache >>> because NetBeans got confused or something like that. There is even an >>> old >>> plugin called "Cache Eraser". >>> >> >> Ah, so we had a plugin for that. >> >> >>> Victor Williams Stafusa da Silva >>> >>> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists >> >> >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > >
