Re: removing the "new project" support for Ant projects

2021-04-20 Thread Will Hartung
On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 9:32 PM Sean Carrick wrote: > Explain to me, Scott, why I **need** to learn Maven and dump Ant. Ant has > served me very well all of these years and has never given me one single > bit of trouble. Speed? Ant is fast enough for me and my projects. Keeping > libraries

Re: removing the "new project" support for Ant projects

2021-04-20 Thread Sean Carrick
It is precisely because you want to focus on getting your software out that you *need* to learn the modern tools for doing so. Your Gradle project file could literally be one line, depending on your needs. Maven is certainly more verbose (My preference is Gradle), but the

Re: removing the "new project" support for Ant projects

2021-04-20 Thread Carl Mosca
On what I hope is a lighter note...I recall being in a session at a JavaOne years ago when a presenter asked if we knew the difference between Ant and Maven. The answer was "the guy who created Ant apologized". (Recall that maven was a bit slow in the early days when it was just getting

Re: removing the "new project" support for Ant projects

2021-04-20 Thread Scott Palmer
> On Apr 20, 2021, at 1:10 PM, Lisa Ruby wrote: > >  For those of you who have used Maven for a long time it may seem simple and > straightforward, but for those of us who haven't it's not. I've struggled to > try and understand it and figure out how to use it for my software project > and

Re: Re: removing the "new project" support for Ant projects

2021-04-20 Thread Eric Bresie
I’m not sure why everyone hates ant so much. I know it’s not perfect but what build tool really is. If the preference is not to use ant in the future...when is Netbeans going to formally change from ant to maven? I know some work has been done in the branches which assume may have involved

Re: removing the "new project" support for Ant projects

2021-04-20 Thread Emilio Gallardo Cantella
To be honest, I think removing new projects in Ant might be too drastic a change altogether. From my perspective, a good lot of people that might still be using old Netbeans and the straightforward Ant support might not even know Ant IS an actual thing in the IDE, more so that their projects

Re: removing the "new project" support for Ant projects

2021-04-20 Thread Sean Carrick
GJ, My apologies! It seems I kicked off more than I expected with my comments. Feel free to slap me if you ever see me... -SC On 4/20/21 2:33 PM, Geertjan Wielenga wrote: > No one is suggesting removing support for Ant altogether. > > The suggestion is to remove the possibility of creating new

Re: removing the "new project" support for Ant projects

2021-04-20 Thread David
+1! On Tue, 2021-04-20 at 17:10 +, Lisa Ruby wrote: > > For those of you who have used Maven for a long time it may seem > simple and straightforward, but for those of us who haven't it's > not. I've struggled to try and understand it and figure out how > to > use it for my

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2021-04-20 Thread Will Hartung
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Re: removing the "new project" support for Ant projects

2021-04-20 Thread Wayne Gemmell | Connect
A compromise could be just to have Ant projects marked as depricated and to have a working alternative. Wayne On Tue, 20 Apr 2021 at 21:33, Geertjan Wielenga wrote: > No one is suggesting removing support for Ant altogether. > > The suggestion is to remove the possibility of creating new Ant

Re: removing the "new project" support for Ant projects

2021-04-20 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
No one is suggesting removing support for Ant altogether. The suggestion is to remove the possibility of creating new Ant projects. Gj On Tue, 20 Apr 2021 at 21:32, Thomas Wolf wrote: > +1 for not removing ant support for me as well. I’m admittedly an > old-timer. My first exposure to a

Re: removing the "new project" support for Ant projects

2021-04-20 Thread Thomas Wolf
+1 for not removing ant support for me as well. I’m admittedly an old-timer. My first exposure to a ‘modern’ build tool was on my last job - the company used gradle. With a background in make and ant, I found its syntax hard to grok.NB devs clearly like Maven - its syntax seems

Re: removing the "new project" support for Ant projects

2021-04-20 Thread Bayless Kirtley
Another +1 for me to not eliminating Ant support for new and existing programs. Ant works perfectly well for all my projects too. Bayless Kirtley On 4/20/21 2:10 PM, Marco Rossi wrote: +1 also for me to not eliminating Ant support for new (or existing) projects. Mark Reds Il giorno 20 apr

Re: removing the "new project" support for Ant projects

2021-04-20 Thread Marco Rossi
+1 also for me to not eliminating Ant support for new (or existing) projects. Mark Reds > Il giorno 20 apr 2021, alle ore 20:08, Mitch Claborn > ha scritto: > > +1 for not eliminating Ant support for new (or existing) projects. We've been > using Ant for a long time, and it still works just

Re: removing the "new project" support for Ant projects

2021-04-20 Thread Emma Atkinson
I develop small projects and prototypes. I was considering migrating to Gradle when the time comes to retire Ant support. I have managed to get OpenJFX and linker working well enough under Ant. It helps that I was used to object linking in the 1980's on DEC PDP11s. Personally, I find Maven

Re: removing the "new project" support for Ant projects

2021-04-20 Thread Jerome Lelasseux
I have an ant-based NB platform application, moving to Maven is on my to-do list, but I know nothing about Maven. Some time ago I tried to find relevant help but I just found generic "move to maven" infos, so I gave up. > That said, perhaps we could get a write up on someone going through the

Re: removing the "new project" support for Ant projects

2021-04-20 Thread Will Hartung
On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 10:10 AM Lisa Ruby wrote: > For those of you who have used Maven for a long time it may seem simple > and straightforward, but for those of us who haven't it's not. I've > struggled to try and understand it and figure out how to use it for my > software project and gave

Re: removing the "new project" support for Ant projects

2021-04-20 Thread Mitch Claborn
+1 for not eliminating Ant support for new (or existing) projects. We've been using Ant for a long time, and it still works just fine for us, so there is no payback in converting to Maven. Mitch On 4/20/21 12:10 PM, Lisa Ruby wrote: For those of you who have used Maven for a long time it may

Re: removing the "new project" support for Ant projects

2021-04-20 Thread Lisa Ruby
For those of you who have used Maven for a long time it may seem simple and straightforward, but for those of us who haven't it's not. I've struggled to try and understand it and figure out how to use it for my software project and gave up. And it's a huge amount of overhead, extra disk space

Re: removing the "new project" support for Ant projects

2021-04-20 Thread Sean Carrick
GJ, While I get where you are coming from, there are still a bunch of legacy applications out there built on the AppFramework, which I do not believe will be able to be converted to Maven. People are still using NB <= 8.2 simply for the AppFramework IDE integration to maintain those legacy

Re: removing the "new project" support for Ant projects

2021-04-20 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
I agree, the Ant-based project creation should be removed and I disagree that there should be any kind of conversion between Ant and Maven -- that simply will never work and we'll spend the rest of our days fixing bugs in that. To convert from Ant to Maven: create a new Maven project and copy the

removing the "new project" support for Ant projects

2021-04-20 Thread pszudzik
Honestly, I think NB should have an internal conversation about removing the "new project" support for Ant projects, while still being able to open existing ones. It just confuses a lot of people if they're not going to be supported. I agree, if and ONLY if you provide at least a rudimentary way

Re: Maven EJB project creates all modules as WAR files

2021-04-20 Thread Will Hartung
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 12:55 AM Wayne Gemmell | Connect < wa...@connect-mobile.co.za> wrote: > Is the perception that nobody does Maven EAR's anymore or that nobody uses > EARs? I have a web app that has given me no shortage of issuse with ant. > I'm trying to move it to Maven. If nobody is