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Bug 9873 - Suggest build-time param to pack JavaHelp in JARs or not
Summary: Suggest build-time param to pack JavaHelp in JARs or not
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: www
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Builds & Repositories (show other bugs)
Version: 3.x
Hardware: PC Linux
: P4 blocker (vote)
Assignee: Jesse Glick
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Reported: 2001-02-27 17:38 UTC by Jesse Glick
Modified: 2002-02-20 21:39 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description Jesse Glick 2001-02-27 17:38:10 UTC
While standard builds generally want to have JavaHelp documentation from modules
unpacked into the docs/ directory (so that users can browse it offline), this is
not necessary for development-oriented builds. In fact it consumes a large chunk
of the time in a full IDE build just to copy the hundreds of little HTML files
from e.g. usersguide into the output directory during the merge.

Suggest some Ant property, like -Dnetbeans.packed-javahelp=true, which if set
would pack JavaHelp into module JARs instead of copying to docs/ directory.
Developers could then run with this mode on (unless testing stuff specific to
unpacked JavaHelp, of course, which would mostly be just me). Would require
minor modifications to scripts for modules containing JavaHelp, and
documentation on nbbuild.netbeans.org saying the mode exists.
Comment 1 Michal Zlamal 2001-03-01 22:02:30 UTC
I agree with you. There are so many files to change, I think it is continuous work. 
Comment 2 Jan Chalupa 2001-05-06 14:14:30 UTC
Target milestone -> 3.3
Comment 3 Jesse Glick 2001-06-01 18:22:36 UTC
Note that in the trunk, usersguide, apisupport, and ant already pack help anyway
(the JavaHelp HTML has no internal navigation, it is not particularly helpful
unpacked).
Comment 4 Michal Zlamal 2002-02-20 17:04:51 UTC
Is this still valid?
Comment 5 Jesse Glick 2002-02-20 21:39:05 UTC
No, all modules now seem to pack their help anyway.