Packaging Netbeans on Gentoo

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Greetings fellow Netbeaners!
I have been a long time Netbeaner, going back so many years I cannot
recall when I first used Netbeans. I recall talking to a Netbeans
developer at Linux World Expo I think in 2002 or 2003, so at least back
to then. It is my primary IDE for everything, but maybe Android stuff.
Mostly Java and C, with other stuff. I do like the syntax support for
cmake. Maybe need to see about that for Gentoo ebuids, and also meson.

Netbeans 8.2 is packaged on Gentoo using Netbeans ant build system.
That is fine, and has no issues under 1.8. Of course under 9 things
change. Also Gentoo being from source, it was difficult to get every
bit of Netbeans from source. Many aspects used pre-built shipped binary
jars. Which some of them may already be installed on the system in
newer versions. Some shipped were able to be swapped out with system,
but the entire thing is cumbersome. Not to mention its split up, but
not exactly modular. It is difficult to work with for my needs.
https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/tree/master/dev-java

Having been building a bunch of stuff from source not using ant. Using
Gentoo eclasses, java-pkg-simple. Which basically uses the find command
to find all source files. Then passes those to javac, and we tar it up
with jar. Basically a shell script to the extreme with python wrapper,
portage/emerge.

Having packaged other things, jetty, large portions of eclipse and
numerous other things. I figured I would try out Netbeans. It makes
sense given my dependence. So that is underway. I have some 50+
packaged and many more to go. I do not think I will do all modules. Not
sure about that when it exists on the system.
https://github.com/Obsidian-StudiosInc/os-xtoo/tree/master/dev-java

Tons of work to do, lots to package, etc. But I think the outcome
should be nice. Possibly a slimmed down, optional Netbeans like exists
on no other platform. Making some progress and I think close to an
initial IDE starting. Though I know a lot of stuff will be missing
till packaged etc. Still have to figure out the clusters aspect.

Initial work on a Netbeans eclass ,to do some of the stuff that ant was
doing during build. Processing bundles, adding resources, etc.
https://github.com/Obsidian-StudiosInc/os-xtoo/blob/master/eclass/java-netb=
eans.eclass

Getting close to starting something, but ran into my first startup
error. Pretty sure missing a jar, or something inside a jar. I have a
working 8.2 I may swap out some jars so I can see what I missed. If
anyone has any pointers much appreciated.

I know I will be encoutering lots of odd issues. I know what I am doing
is highly abnormal. Please bear with me. I will look to address any
issues I create. Just may need some pointers on some issues like the
following exception. I was trying to get an idea via the following link.

http://bits.netbeans.org/8.2/javadoc/org-openide-modules/org/openide/module=
s/doc-files/api.html

Any links or information will be greatly appreciated! Thanks for the
great IDE!


Startup exception, seems I am missing a bundle resource, or something I
haven't packaged yet. Seems like this should be in core.startup, which
I have packaged. Maybe failed on something there.


$ netbeans-9
java.util.MissingResourceException: Can't find resource for bundle
org.openide.util.NbBundle$PBundle, key currentVersion at
java.base/java.util.ResourceBundle.getObject(ResourceBundle.java:544)
at
java.base/java.util.ResourceBundle.getString(ResourceBundle.java:501)
at org.openide.util.NbBundle.getMessage(NbBundle.java:617) at
org.openide.util.NbBundle.getMessage(NbBundle.java:711) at
org.openide.util.NbBundle.getMessage(NbBundle.java:633) at
org.netbeans.core.startup.TopLogging.printSystemInfo(TopLogging.java:221)
at org.netbeans.core.startup.TopLogging.initialize(TopLogging.java:178)
at org.netbeans.core.startup.TopLogging.initialize(TopLogging.java:140)
at org.netbeans.core.startup.CLIOptions.initialize(CLIOptions.java:227)
at org.netbeans.core.startup.Main.start(Main.java:216) at
org.netbeans.core.startup.TopThreadGroup.run(TopThreadGroup.java:98) at
java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:844)



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William L. Thomson Jr.

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