Re: projects vs ant/make

Hi Ivan,

Ivan Soleimanipour wrote:

>Where can I learn about how projects interact with external
>build engines and dependency databases?
>  
>
The interaction is very simple, it only allows to start external build 
engine as a step of project build process. You have to create special 
build target which will provide this integration (e.g. ant/projects 
module implements such target). Projects have their own internal build 
system, you can read more about it in Developers Guide 
(http://projects.netbeans.org/architecture/dev_guide.html#overview\build).

>For example ...
>
>- How do projects extract lists of dependencies from a build.xml?
>
>- If you use the project UI to add a dependency how does a build.xml
>  get told about it?
>  
>
Projects build system doesn't support these interactions.

>
>I've looked at http://projects.netbeans.org/ps/ReqProject.html
>uner User requirements and to my horror noticed thatinteraction with
>external build engines/repositories isn't a stated requirement.
>
>The "Organization of Data Objects - requirements" on the same
>page doesn't mention ant or make either.
>
>_None_ of the following documents mention ant or make:
>
>http://projects.netbeans.org/ps/Build.html
>http://projects.netbeans.org/ps/Dependencies.html
><the set of documnets related to "Session management">
>
>This is about all I can find under "Project Specification".
>
>http://projects.netbeans.org/ps/index.html#IN
>  
>
Above documents are mostly obsolete. They refer to earlier phases of 
projects developement. Please, look at Developers Guide or project's 
APIs javadoc.

-vita