Hey, > Probably you don't have to package the whole IntelliJ IDE. Most recently > I have packaged intellij-annotations because I needed it as a > build-dependency for android-platform-tools-base. Especially for large > and complex projects like IntelliJ (last time I checked I noticed that > the source release bundles ~500 jars), it is often simpler to package > certain parts from maven central instead of trying to build everything.
Yeah, this sound reasonable. But how do i find out in what packages i should split intellij? E.g. just by folders like RegExpSupport (https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/tree/master/RegExpSupport), Debugger(https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/tree/master/java/debugger) and write my own gant/ant build scripts for that? How would i import new versions then? I mean, should i just continue with the normal debian/ upstream/ branch split and pull all changes in that particular folder (e.g. with http://stackoverflow.com/a/13738951)? thanks.
