Hi Lazlo, those are great news. Thanks for sharing.
I also hope that the Kotlin support is taking up speed than we could even support the Gradle Kotlin DSL. Laszlo Kishalmi <laszlo.kisha...@gmail.com> schrieb am Fr., 28. Feb. 2020, 02:23: > Dear all, > > I just would like to share the progress of my secret project: build > NetBeans with Gradle > > I'm still not sure how far I would like to go with this experiment, but > if nothing else it could be a good test data for the Gradle Support. > > I had the following milestones in my mind: > > M0: Done: Get the project dependencies straight, without having circular > dependencies: Right now it has 813 sub-projects in the known clusters > > M1: Done: Get the modules in the Platform cluster (and the harness > cluster) compileable. > > M2: TBD: Make the unit tests pass for the Platform Cluster. > > M3: TBD: Make the output of the Platform cluster actually runable. > > How it works: > > I have a specific NetBeans Gradle Plugin which reads the > nbproject/clusters.properties and each module nbproject/project.xml file > to get the dependency configuration. other configuration items are read > from the nbproject.properties file. In theory we do not have to do any > changes for an ordinary module it shall work out of the box without even > having a build.gradle file. There are however some special cases where > build.gradle file is required. Unfortunately there are some dependency > tangles between the modules causing circular dependency in Gradle. In > these cases I had to split up the modules between test and source projects. > > If anyone would like to have a look: > > please clone the gradle2 branch of my fork: > https://github.com/lkishalmi/netbeans > > The Gradle build right now needs the help to fetch the external > dependencies: ant download-all-extbins > > But after that one: > > ./gradlew buildPlatformCluster -x check > > shall work. (It currently requires JDK 11 or up) > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.apache.org > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > >
