Unwanted IDE tasks related to IDEA added to Gradle

[sharky98]

Hi,

I am using VSCode and was having a hard time figuring out why the template had tasks related to IDEA. After investigation, they come from this plugin. They should be removed or opt-in.

IDE tasks
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cleanIdea - Cleans IDEA project files (IML, IPR)
idea - Generates IDEA project files (IML, IPR, IWS)
openIdea - Opens the IDEA project

❯ ./gradlew help --task idea

> Configure project :
Architect Plugin: 3.4.160

[st0x0ef]

You just don't need to use them... They shouldn't be removed because those tasks are useful for those who use Intellij Idea.

[sharky98]

You just don't need to use them... They shouldn't be removed because those tasks are useful for those who use Intellij Idea.

Why they don't add the plugin IDEA themselves then? The Architectury Plugin exist to allow the transformation of common code to Fabric or NeoForge, not tell me what IDE to use.

[st0x0ef]

Because it's simpler, and you can still use vscode without any problem, just ignore it. Anyway, I don't think it comes from architectury plugin since those tasks are also present with neoforge only.

[sharky98]

They does come from this plugin. Now, if NeoForge add them too 🤦. Just more time lost to useless download and useless bandwith used.

architectury-plugin/src/main/kotlin/dev/architectury/plugin/ArchitecturyPlugin.kt

Lines 24 to 31 in f35e036

	project.apply(
	mapOf(
	"plugin" to "java",
	"plugin" to "eclipse",
	"plugin" to "idea",
	"plugin" to "org.jetbrains.gradle.plugin.idea-ext"
	)
	)

[st0x0ef]

The majority of user use intellij idea or eclipse, it makes sense to have some utility tasks. And no, it doesn't use "bandwidth", it's probably less than a kilobyte of data.