I want to not be dependent on the platform nbms published to Central or any other online repository. I want to be able to clone NB sources from Github, disconnect from the internet, and create a maven-based platform app with just that. If the platform I build the app against ever becomes unavailable online, I want to still be able to build the app.
Like exactly the same as what Geertjan is showing in the first video from [1]: https://youtu.be/VC8gQJknPaU. He builds netbeans from sources, registers the built platform using the UI for that in Netbeans IDE (Tools -> Netbeans Platforms) and creates a NBP app that uses that platform. I wanted to do the same, but the maven way. [1] https://netbeans.apache.org/participate/build-run-debug-tutorials.html On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 1:06 PM Tim Boudreau <niftin...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you mean, have a multi-module parent pom, and some way to run a module > and have all its dependencies be found and included... as far as I know, > there is simply no good way to do that with the nbm-maven-plugin - it is a > glaring feature gap. > > The (painful) workaround is to create an nbm-application project, that > depends on everything you need, and build and run that (which means > rebuilding the entire application structure every time you want to run, > which can take several minutes). Here's an example of that (see the pom > and the shell scripts in this dir): > > > https://github.com/timboudreau/ANTLR4-Plugins-for-NetBeans/tree/master/antlr-suite > > I've thought about writing a patch for the nbm plugin to do the right thing > - build the application structure in the project's target/ dir, find all > dependencies that can be resolved as projects in the reactor and only > update those that have changed - but I've only got about 2000 other things > I need to get done in front of that :-/ > > -Tim >
