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Currently all the core-*.jar modules are in the lib/ directory. They should be made into proper modules instead, to clean up the classpath. 1. Those which provide some service which might not always be needed, should be made autoloads, OIDE-M-Provides some token. E.g. compilation and execution modules would provide CompilationEngine and ExecutionEngine, respectively. Old modules would automatically Require these tokens; new modules would have to ask for them explicitly. See NbInstaller for more. 2. Those which are simply needed for normal operation of the IDE, e.g. window system or UI, should be made eager modules, ensuring they cannot be turned off by the user. Don't forget some things: a. Update NbInstaller to not bother masking out Java packages which are no longer in the classpath anyway. The normal classloader mechanism will do this correctly anyway. b. Any real core code accessing these modules will need to be rewritten to not have a compile-time (or hard run-time!) dependency. c. nbresboot: -> nbres: for e.g. DTDs.
Target milestone was changed from '3.4' to TBD.
Now mine, I guess.
Done (c) in working sources (deprecated nbresboot:).
In progress in separation_19443_b branch; all but core-windows.jar are moved.
Only core-windows.jar remains on the classpath. Due to the difficulty of pulling the window system out of the rest of core, I do not expect this to be fixed for NB 4.0.
Well, it's done now! Thanks Peter.