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ralfstx / minimal-json

A fast and small JSON parser and writer for Java

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Support for NetBeans + git submodules #93

Closed CLOVIS-AI closed 6 years ago

CLOVIS-AI commented 6 years ago

Currently, someone using NetBeans and Git Submodules cannot use this project as a dependancy.

The problem was:

When using this repertory as a submodule, NetBeans wouldn't allow to import the source files because it didn't understand where they were

Solution:

I added a nbproject directory with the needed configuration files.
Now, when this project is a git submodule, you can add the source files as a library in NetBeans (Library/add project/browse to the src folder)

Pros:

The only two files added (plus the .gitignore file) are configuration file, and will never need to be modified (no pollution of the repo)
Every other NetBeans file/folder is ignored by the .gitignore (no pollution of the repo)

Cons:

The solution only allows the original source files to be loaded, the tests and performance tests are excluded (but this is enough for submodules, as nobody with bother testing dependancy; it doesn't change anything for the contributors of the project anyway)

CLOVIS-AI commented 6 years ago

@bernardosulzbach To my knowledge it shouldn't change anything else (but I'm not a Maven user so I cannot say for sure)