+1 for not removing Ant support or Ant New project creation. I personnally still use Ant for my projects
Le 22/04/2021 à 03:40, Owen Thomas a écrit : > If one wants to create an Ant project from within NetBeans, then one > should be able to do that. > > I've encountered both Maven and Gradle (Gradle when developing for > Android on IntelliJ... another anecdote about frustration), and I can > see their use when one has to manage one's code base against differing > versions of third party libraries. That's great, but if one is merely > doing something small, especially something that might showcase some > feature of SE without bringing in functionality of third party > libraries, Ant leaves the developer alone to do that. All the stuff > that Gradle and Maven introduce to one's build script becomes useless > boilerplate - a distraction especially when one merely wants to > demonstrate or learn a feature of the SE API and perhaps even to grasp > some of the necessity of the build script itself. > > It's not difficult to move a project to Maven or Gradle or any other > build script. Copy one's /src directory from the Ant project to the > appropriate directory of the destination project (maybe set a main > class) and off you go. Novice developers can easily be scared into > withdrawal by considerations that are not salient to their aims, and > the distractions that Maven/Gradle build scripts introduce can only > encourage withdrawal into those developers who are trying to navigate > this world alone. I would consider it a backward step if NB were to > adopt the position of other IDEs and appropriate an air of superiority > around the choice of build script. Because nothing more than an air of > superiority is projected by an IDE that doesn't permit the creation of > Ant projects. > > I like Ant. Ant is good. Leave Ant alone. > > Done. > > Owen.
