Well, it is just on my wish list. I'm nowhere near to implement anything for that. Though someone might...
My (ever changing) list of priorities: - Initial HCL support. - Initial Terraform code completion - Real Gradle JavaToolchain Support - Terraform Project support - NetBeans build to Gradle migration POC On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 6:26 PM Michael Bien <mbie...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 14.03.23 13:29, Emma Atkinson wrote: > > I gave up on Maven a couple of years ago for the reasons already > > given. No matter what size partition I used it would be too small > > within a year or so. I used to grab the dependencies I needed and > > switched off the Maven Index download in NB. > > if your project depends on a library and you use a build tool like > gradle or maven, it will download that library. Switching build tools > won't make a difference. > > my .m2 folder is 4GB right now and I haven't cleared it for at least 2 > years. NetBeans isn't downloading any of that, the build tools do that. > Build tools are IDE independent, they would download the exact same > stuff when run without an IDE. That is the whole point of build tools > since you don't want to ship your project with an IDE. > > > If you don't need any of the NetBeans editor features local or remote > repo indexing gives you, you can simply turn it off in the settings and > NetBeans won't download the maven central index. > > we have a pending PR which makes it a bit more configurable and also > explains what indexing actually does, since I read at least twice by now > that users think that NetBeans is downloading maven central itself > (which would probably be a few TB of storage, optimistically) > > https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/5646 > > right now its an all-or-nothing option. This PR proposes to turn off > remote index downloads selectively while still indexing your .m2 folder > which produces a much smaller index footprint. > > -mbien > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > >
