Re: PROPOSAL: Seperate *.class files from *.java files in build

On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 04:06:13AM -0500, Brian Smith wrote:
> I would like to change the build files for MDR so that the classfiles 
> get dumped into a seperate directory hierarchy from the source files 
> during compilation. I realize that inside of NetBeans this isn't 
> necessary because NetBeans hides the classfiles from you. But, I am 
> working with MDR on computers that can't have NetBeans installed on them 
> for a variety of reasons (old, slow, crappy home computer; 
> administrative rules). And, when not using NetBeans the classfiles are 
> continuously in my way in directory browsers and with my CVS client.
> 
> What do you think? If it is okay I can submit a patch. But, I don't 
> write a patch that won't be accepted because I don't want to have to 
> maintain a completely seperate build.xml from the one everybody else is 
> using.

I was like you when I still worked with good old emacs. But using
Netbeans as IDE you really require to have *.class besides *.java,
because the IDE display additional information to the user, which can
only be retrieved from class files. So we internally changed all our
build files and have now *.class and *.java in one directory.

Hence you probably won't get your patch through. The only possibility
would be to simultaneously submit a patch to the core Netbeans
infrastructure which hints Netbeans to look up the classes in a
separate directory and to wait until this patch gets integrated into
the Netbeans core. Actually I would not recommend to do this ;-)

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Holger Krug
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