I am all for this! I use Eclipse and sometimes getting the project set up from pure Maven is a real pain. What do you suggest the best path to implement this is for NetBeans, Eclipse, Idea, etc? Are there other projects out there that do this that we can take a look at?
Adam On Sep 29, 2012, at 11:58 PM, Martin Desruisseaux wrote: > One last question: since I work on NetBeans, I have an "ide-project/NetBeans" > directory with NetBeans project configuration files. This configuration is > not specific to my machine; it is designed in a way that should make it > possible to anyone to open it (NetBeans stores user-specific information in a > separated directory called "private"). It is not a replacement to Maven; > actually Maven must be run at least once before to open the project, because > the project refers to some files produced by Maven. > > While NetBeans can open natively Maven projects, NetBeans projects are faster > to debug and contains information not found in Maven projects, for example > the words added to the spell-checker for the SIS javadoc. Would it be okay if > I commit a clean (user-neutral) "ide-project/NetBeans" directory, excluding > of course the "private" sub-directory? Maybe something similar could be done > in an "ide-project/Eclipse" directory if someone wish. > > Martin >
