Providing features for specific IDE

Today there were two PR at JUnits repository merged that draw @nicolaiparlog s attention and he likes to discuss them:

• 2241 - GitHub issue links in IDEA Git log
• 2240 - Add icon for JetBrains Toolbox

As you can read from the link description both things don’t target the JUnit code itself, but focus on some improvements (some may call them only gadgets) for IntelliJ. As they are support only one specific IDE, but not all this would mean, they only are useful for users of this IDE.

So first goal of this issue is do decide if we want to support IDEs with such features in general. If we decide to do so (and how), we then can decide if you want to copy above mentioned PR.

Some general information:

• Inside the .infra directory there is already an folder eclipse which holds eclipse formatter file and organizing import instruction file. They are natively only usable by eclipse, but for IntelliJ there’s a plugin to make use of these files. Root cause of them being in the repository is that they are copied from JUnit Jupiter repository.
• If we are open to support specific IDE it may happen that we will get quite some additional folders inside .infra for those. Maybe user expect us to maintain these config files, which would come down to the point if we are able to do this (skill wise)

Let’s start 😃

[vlsi]

Hi there.

I see you are discussing various plugins for Gradle, however, it looks like Gradle overhead is neglected. One can’t execute a Gradle build in order to “figure out the icon for the project”. It does not work like that. For instance, if my file manager wants to display an icon, I don’t expect it to execute Gradle build for each folder. The same for JetBrains Toolbox: it shows a list of projects, and the projects might even use different build tools. I want the icons to appear fast.

What I think is project icon and issue urls should be EditorConfig features. Then it could be better supported across IDEs and tools.

Something like

# .editorconfig
icon_url = .idea/icon.svg
icon_url_dark = .idea/icon_dark.svg

[nipafx]

@marcphilipp Thanks for the information. I went back and forth where to create an issue for that:

• Gradle’s plugin is the farthest away from such a “nice-to-have” feature
• idea-ext has seen very little development recently
• JetBrains issue tracker makes the least immediate sense (how can IntelliJ read this info if no plugin allows its configuration?)

The latter two just don’t seem particularly helpful at the moment, so I think Gradle’s plugin would be the best way to get this started. Where are its issues tracked? As part of Gradle’s issues?