On Sat, 26 May 2018 10:58:16 -0400
"William L. Thomson Jr." <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Tim,
> 
> On Sat, 26 May 2018 02:44:37 -0400
> Tim Boudreau <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > - you'd like it, I'd like it  and the rest of the world would scream
> > "why do I have to install the bones of another operating system
> > under my real one just to build this thing?"  
> 
> Yes for sure. I do not see people being eager to install portage in
> preffix just to bulid netbeans. 

Though keep in mind this would be for ALL Java not JUST Netbeans.
Netbeans maybe the motivation. But you get a full Java stack. Thus it
is not really just for one package. It should be for all Java stuff.
Like using Netbeans to do Java development, with full access to all
system jars, etc. Could also use it for deployment on servers.

In the sense that it is an entire Java stack from source, with your
choice of JDK and Java release target or system default. It allows
Gentoo's Java system to be used on other OS. Which is more worth while
than installing prefix etc just for Netbeans.

Though things like spring, jenkins etc is a pain. Jenkins needs Spring.
Spring 4.x needs almost ever Java project that has ever existed current
or not. Now Spring 5.x needs Kotlin, and that I have to bootstrap :|

Stuck on some other stuff like JMeter due to jodd-logging, odd build
order with javac and groovyc. Also VisualVM, which was stuck on older
Netbeans. But now that I have netbeans in jars I can build VisualVM my
way without having to use the ant NB harness.

Tons left to do, but making good progress slowly. Eventually I will get
there. Or if others pitch in, will happen sooner than later. This far
this is all me, 1 man army :) While Java in Gentoo bit rots...

-- 
William L. Thomson Jr.

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