Thank you so much Laszlo, your value explanation is much appreciated and I will consider it now.
Best regards Andreas On Sat, 2021-08-21 at 07:57 -0700, Laszlo Kishalmi wrote: > I'm sorry being short at the first. > In general specifying version in build is a bad practice. The version > is not a property of a build process, as long as you have the code in > hand you should keep that "versionless". Version is a property of the > release process. > The build process shall be merely responsible to create an executable > (reusable) package from the source code. > The release process shall be responsible to: > 1. Get a specific source code > 2. Assign a version to the release > 3. Create a versioned executable (reusable) package using the build > process > 4. Tag the sources > 5. Upload the versioned packages to a binary repository for further > use > Due to some initial technical limitation Maven made version a > required part of their build. That would result a lot of workarounds > to put in place, like SNAPSHOT versions, a specific step in maven > projects to change the version in each and every pom.xml in the > project before release, etc. > > In Gradle version is optional. > > The best use of the version property is: > > ./gradlew -Pversion=1.2.3 clean build > > when the release comes. > > OpenJFX project had a problem with it as they generated second > precision version for their artifacts, so when the dependencies were > resolved in different times they would reference different jars, so > NetBeans was not able to connect the dependencies between modules > with versions crested a few seconds apart. > > I would check the project properties for classpath. > > Also make sure that the Tools > Options > Java > Gradle > > Experimental > Enable 'lazy' Source Group Initialization is turned > off. > > You may test NetBeans 12.5-beta1 > > On 8/20/21 10:43 PM, Andreas Reichel wrote: > > > > > Greetings. > > > > On Fri, 2021-08-20 at 18:52 -0700, Laszlo Kishalmi wrote: > > > > > Try to get rid of the version specification. > > > > I have tried that just because I am desperate and ready to grab any > > straw. > > Unfortunately it did not change anything -- and why should it. > > > > > > > What you are doing there is a bad practice. > > > > Says who and why. Please elaborate. > > > > Best regards > > Andreas > >
