What strikes me about this feature request and those like it is not that they're a bad idea and therefore a waste of time. Rather, they are ideas that are not good uses of the IntelliJ team's time. However, ALL of these issues, and each and every one like them would be rendered completely moot by an open API. Personally I think it a fine notion to have my IDE know how to make a JAR file without my having to go learn some external tool. However, I agree with most of you that IntelliJ should not waste their time with that. I am as yet unclear on the future plans with respect to the open API. Last I heard they were focusing on allowing arbitrary version control integration. That interests me not even a tiny bit. Has there been any (recent) statement of intent with respect to this?
Kirk Hani Suleiman wrote: >We could keep walking down that path, I'd like IDEA to have a J2EE >deployment wizard too, and to generate .ear and .war files for me. I'd also >like it to automatically create the appropriate manifests. I wouldn't object >to it IDEA also doing this all in the background, and monitoring what I do >and deciding it's time for me to make a jar file. > >On 20/3/02 4:58 pm, "Patrick M. Ansari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Personally, I also think this is a good idea. There are some cases where >>you don't want to use Ant but still want to create Jars. >> >>Regards, >> >>Patrick M. Ansari >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >>----------------------------------- >>186 East Road, R5.1 >>CB1 1BG Cambridge, Cambridgeshire >>United Kingdom >>Phone: +44 (0) 1223 475578 >>----------------------------------- >> >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>On Behalf Of Slomcenski, Robert J >>Sent: 20 March 2002 21:35 >>To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' >>Subject: RE: [Eap-list] Feature request: jar tool >> >>I can use ANT to generate a jar file and I can use ANT to generate >>javadoc, too. >> >>It just seems inconsistent for IDEA to have a specific menu option >>for "Generate javadoc..." but not one for "Generate jar...". >> >>Bob Slomcenski >> >>PSG/PSSU/S&SO/MPSO >>800 Phillips Road (129-35A), Webster, NY 14580 >>Phone: (585) 422-2494 Intelnet: 8*222-2494 >>E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Patrick M. Ansari [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 12:12 PM >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: RE: [Eap-list] Feature request: jar tool >> >> >>Just use ANT to build the JARs >> >>Regards, >> >>Patrick M. Ansari >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >>----------------------------------- >>186 East Road, R5.1 >>CB1 1BG Cambridge, Cambridgeshire >>United Kingdom >>Phone: +44 (0) 1223 475578 >>----------------------------------- >> >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>On Behalf Of Slomcenski, Robert J >>Sent: 20 March 2002 16:39 >>To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' >>Subject: [Eap-list] Feature request: jar tool >> >>I am new to IDEA and am just getting familiar with the environment. >>Is there an option, external tool, or other method to invoke the >>jar command? >>IDEA has a javadoc builder, but seems to be lacking a jar builder. >> >>Bob Slomcenski >> >>PSG/PSSU/S&SO/MPSO >>800 Phillips Road (129-35A), Webster, NY 14580 >>Phone: (585) 422-2494 Intelnet: 8*222-2494 >>E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Eap-list mailing list >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list >> >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Eap-list mailing list >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Eap-list mailing list >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list >> >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Eap-list mailing list >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list >> > > >_______________________________________________ >Eap-list mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list > > _______________________________________________ Eap-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list
