Eclipse and Gradle in OpenJFX

[Andy Goryachev]

Dear developers:

Does anyone use gradle in Eclipse (Buildship plug-in) with the OpenJFX repo?

The reason I am asking is that in my experience, the gradle nature in OpenJFX is either misconfigured, or obsolete, or both.  There is a rather old wiki page [0] which describes the Eclipse setup, though I don't think it is correct anymore.  The initial import of the repository in Eclipse triggers an internal gradle run which creates/modifies a bunch of .classpath and .project files which must be undone before the workspace becomes usable.  In any case, only a proper command line gradle build is supported anyway.

I would like to propose removing the gradle nature from Eclipse's .project files in OpenJFX.  Once done, the projects can be trivially imported into a new workspace with no extra steps required.  This change has no impact on command line build whatsoever.

What do you think?

Thank you
-andy



References

[1] https://wiki.openjdk.org/display/OpenJFX/Using+an+IDE#UsinganIDE-ConfigureEclipsetousethelatestJDK
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