Hi, On Fri, 19 Sept 2025 at 00:37, Blake McBride <blake1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Again, one example of the many reasons I wrote bld.
I thought bld was created by Geert Bevin?? > IMO, imperative build systems are better, period. Couldn't disagree more, and I suspect you'll find a lot of people around the NetBeans ecosystem are unlikely to agree with that statement either. In fact, statements like these always remind me of Jaroslav's post on Gradle https://wiki.apidesign.org/wiki/Gradle Still, it's possible the Ant freeform project could be made to work with bld. In some ways it would be nice to have a more generic, declarative project type for integrating with other build systems - as a fallback. I remember starting to look at something after discussing Bach at FOSDEM 2020, but life got in the way that year and I never did get that far with it. > Clearly, pom.xml files are inadequate. Perhaps NetBeans can lead the way. Given NetBeans' ethos of being a UI for the build system, it is already leading the way in my opinion. Let's not make it worse in the process! ;-) Best wishes, Neil --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@netbeans.apache.org For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
