Also one day the Gradle plugin may be smart enough to use that Maven index for its own good. Like offering a dependency to add when you add an import statement for a class...
On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 6:28 AM Neil C Smith <neilcsm...@apache.org> wrote: > On Tue, 14 Mar 2023 at 12:31, Emma Atkinson <emma.atkins...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Recently (couple of years) I started using the Maven repository again > but through Gradle. Gradle does not load and decompress the whole index. > Gradle loads solely the dependencies (artifact : group : version) specified > in the build.gradle file. When building, Gradle loads the dependency files > into a folder under ~/.gradle if it's not already there. > > Maven works the same way. See ~/.m2 > > > I was wondering if that part of Gradle's functionality could be > recruited to selectively download relevant dependencies. It looks like the > Maven pom contains the same information as Gradle's dependencies > configuration. > > > > Please forgive me if this seems daft to you. > > This isn't really about Maven vs Gradle behaviour, but differences in > how they're supported in the IDE. In some ways, it would be good to > have Maven searching work similarly in Gradle. OTOH, be good to not > download and index the entirety of Maven central IMO. > > Best wishes, > > Neil > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@netbeans.apache.org > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > >
