Re: Multiple source roots?

Hi,

On Fri, 19 Sept 2025 at 00:37, Blake McBride <[email protected]> wrote:
> Again, one example of the many reasons I wrote bld.

I thought bld was created by Geert Bevin??

> IMO, imperative build systems are better, period.

Couldn't disagree more, and I suspect you'll find a lot of people
around the NetBeans ecosystem are unlikely to agree with that
statement either.  In fact, statements like these always remind me of
Jaroslav's post on Gradle https://wiki.apidesign.org/wiki/Gradle

Still, it's possible the Ant freeform project could be made to work
with bld.  In some ways it would be nice to have a more generic,
declarative project type for integrating with other build systems - as
a fallback.  I remember starting to look at something after discussing
Bach at FOSDEM 2020, but life got in the way that year and I never did
get that far with it.

> Clearly, pom.xml files are inadequate. Perhaps NetBeans can lead the way.

Given NetBeans' ethos of being a UI for the build system, it is
already leading the way in my opinion.  Let's not make it worse in the
process! ;-)

Best wishes,

Neil

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