Support for convenient selection of Gradle build types

Open Markus-Elfring opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

Summary

I took another look at the capabilities of the following software.

Eclipse IDE for Java Developers 2022-06 (4.24.0) Eclipse Plug-ins for Gradle 3.1.6.v20220511-1359

It can be tried out to create another Gradle project by the provided wizard.

Expected Behavior

A project structure preview is presented as a last step. The display “lib” seems to be a hint for the build type “java-library”.

:thought_balloon: I would occasionally like to choose an other build type in a more convenient way. I imagine that a corresponding search interface can become more helpful.

Context

The initial project configuration can be chosen better, can't it?

Sep 15 '22 15:09 Markus-Elfring

Duplicate of https://github.com/eclipse/buildship/issues/1118

Yes, the New Project Gradle dialog creates a Gradle project of the type java-library which is currently hard-coded. In Gradle 7, the project layout has been changed to a lib sibling folder.

Workaround: In the New Project Gradle dialog choose a Gradle version < 7. After the project has been created, you can change the project type and use a higher Gradle version.

May 19 '23 12:05 howlger