Hi all,
From time to time we need to patch external sources to generate
external binaries [1].
In other situations we may need to download a Maven binary and then
extract a part of it to compile against [2].
And for some other modules the Maven binaries are signed with a digital
certificate (eclipse mainly) and we may want to remove the signature (if
that affects performance, for example).
All these situations are currently handled by hooking into the
-javac-init projectized-common ant task, in the build.xml file, like this:
<target name="-javac-init" depends="-prepare-patched-binary,
projectized-common.-javac-init" />
I was wondering if ...
- ... it would be a good idea to create a new ant target in
projectized-common specifically for this situation, say
"preprocess-binaries", or "prepare-binaries".
- ... What other things could we do here? For all of you that have
reviewed modules, would you benefit of such a new target?
Thanks,
Antonio
[1] https://github.com/apache/incubator-netbeans/pull/172
[2] https://github.com/apache/incubator-netbeans/pull/181
