I will check (old/new version, community/ultimate). I am afraid that even if it does not blow for some cases it can cause havoc in others. I can ask JetBrains about this too.
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Luke Daley <luke.da...@gradleware.com> wrote: > > > On 5 September 2014 at 5:43:15 pm, Radim Kubacki ( > radim.kuba...@gradleware.com) wrote: > > Hi, > > there are a few improvements in IntelliJ's last releases and our current > integration does not know how to use them: ability to mark content roots as > generated, distinction between source and resource root and possibly some > others. > > Similarly we can add web facets to generated project ( > https://github.com/gradle/gradle/pull/139) but this functionality is only > available in Ultimate edition so it is not clear to me what happens if > project with this facet is opened in Community edition. > > I can update our generator to take advantage of these new features but do > not want to throw overboard users with older IJ's version. My current plan > is to add String property 'version' to IdeaModel and control what is > generated into .iml/.ipr files based on this. A project can default it to > some value and users can override it from some locally defined property if > they wish. It is not perfect given that there is AndroidStudio spin-off. > Still it seems to me sufficient. The next step will be to expose these > information in Tooling API - I just need to find an API working for old and > new versions to do it. > > Comments? Objections? > > Do we know that older versions of IDEA blow up when they encounter this > new metadata? >
