My first message was not fully baked and my intended meaning was missed. I was trying to point out that after 1-2 years of use, my Netbeans 8.1 cache was still a reasonable size, ~140 MB. From my one data point, I don’t see that there is a cache problem at all. Only a Maven Index problem which is a different beast. Are other people’s “large cache” problems also tied to use of maven central’s 2.5GB index? There may be some people that consider even 140 MB of cache data to be a problem.
Thanks Emilian for pointing me to the “on line” plugin for maven to avoid using the local index. My alternative was to copy the one maven-central library that I still use to our local repository, but this plugin idea seems much more elegant way to manage this. As for the size of the maven index, Gili asked about the downsides of using the plugin by default. Maybe the default should be to not use an indexer at all. Projects that are available in a maven repository frequently publish the POM entry in a copy/paste format right in the “downloads” section. I have never had to rely on autocompletion in a POM file to get my work done. My maven usage may be atypical. — derik On Mar 21, 2018, at 12:08 AM, Emilian Bold <emilian.b...@protonmail.ch<mailto:emilian.b...@protonmail.ch>> wrote: I have used NetBeans 8.1 on my Mac of at least a year, maybe 2. Upon investigation 2.49 GB of the 2.63 GB that were in my cache were located in maven indexes/central/. I have only use one library in Maven Central (others are in a local repository). I was unaware that adding that small project (less than 10 classes) was causing maven to chew up almost 2.5 GB of HDD space. https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__plugins.netbeans.org_plugin_68415_maven-2Dremote-2Dsearch&d=DwIFaQ&c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&r=LEbKaWj9ZrFRBadYtwZVnHfoaHpGoEmzs1DrtRBDEg8&m=A2yEU57VLfbAoySIU9qsy4iuseO1wDRLy_Jhtk7H9co&s=L-iWe6-z67YTGw5kiEZTWTKZxH-wZUGtEZhQAL4HdNI&e= , made by me, which I believe should become the default in NetBeans installs (after much testing, rewriting, etc.) --emi I have used NetBeans 8.1 on my Mac of at least a year, maybe 2. Upon investigation 2.49 GB of the 2.63 GB that were in my cache were located in maven indexes/central/. I have only use one library in Maven Central (others are in a local repository). I was unaware that adding that small project (less than 10 classes) was causing maven to chew up almost 2.5 GB of HDD space.
