On Sun, 25 Nov 2018 at 20:53, Tim Boudreau <[email protected]> wrote: > There's a UI principle Joel Spolsky expounded years ago: Never force the > user into a choice they don't care about.
Not sure if that was meant as a direct reply to me or not, but I completely agree with that ... > A lot of users of NetBeans are new to Java or new to programming > altogether. They don't know what Ant, Maven or Gradle are, and won't > understand what they are for a long time. ... however, from a couple of conversations I've had recently with new-ish programmers, I'm not sure I agree with hiding the fact that there *is* a build system when not forcing a decision. I'm mostly +1 to Toni's PR as a good first step, but personally I think it would be better to be more explicit in the name and description that the project uses Maven - eg. Java Application with Maven - A Java application using the default Maven build system. Is there also an issue if we just move the Maven template with the same name in place of the Ant one that a load of old tutorials, etc. will be confusingly wrong? Best wishes, Neil --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
