Is there a need for some further cleanup dependency between builds maybe to 
remove duplicate jars / modules with different time stamps?

Rather than time stamp in these cases should it just use a SNAPSHOT designation 
instead?

Eric Bresie
ebre...@gmail.com
> On July 20, 2020 at 5:42:30 PM CDT, Kevin Rushforth 
> <kevin.rushfo...@oracle.com> wrote:
> I filed https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8249777 to track fixing
> the build.gradle to not include the time stamp, at least by default.
>
> -- Kevin
>
>
> On 7/20/2020 3:16 PM, Kevin Rushforth wrote:
> >
> > On 7/20/2020 2:05 PM, Laszlo Kishalmi wrote:
> > > On 7/20/20 1:15 PM, Kevin Rushforth wrote:
> > > > > That could be prevented by removing line 1547: project.version =
> > > > > MAVEN_VERSION from the build script.
> > > >
> > > > Interesting. That is only used for the maven "publishing" tasks, and
> > > > shouldn't affect the main build artifacts. I don't see the generated
> > > > version number showing up anywhere in the build output. It would be
> > > > easy enough to suppress this for non-production builds, but I'd want
> > > > to understand how it is causing problems. Does gradle (and thus the
> > > > NetBeans gradle plugin), assign some semantic meaning to the
> > > > project.version attribute?
> > > There is no semantic association. It is just the binding of the
> > > sub-projects together. Recent Gradle doesn't generate the jar files
> > > of the sub-projects if not asked for that specifically. Though if
> > > javafx:base project is asked of it's main output it would be a jar
> > > file with a second precision suffix in it's name. Also if you ask for
> > > the dependencies of javafx:graphics it will list a dependency on a
> > > javafx:base base jar with the second precision suffix in its name.
> > > The jar file does not have to be exist, NetBeans still would able to
> > > find out the dependency between the two sub-projects, but these jar
> > > names shall be the same. So if these two queries happen in different
> > > times the jar name would not match.
> >
> > Got it. We explicitly disable the jar task for each modular project,
> > since we don't need them, so we never would have noticed this. If I
> > enable them, I can see the jar files with the full version number,
> > including the date string.
> >
> > I'll file a bug to fix it. I'll need to do it in such a way that won't
> > disrupt generating maven artifacts for testing (actual maven artifacts
> > for uploading won't be affected anyway), but it should be easy to do.
> >
> > -- Kevin
> >
>

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