Use jMAVlib and la4j gracefully about flightplot HOT 4 CLOSED

Do you think you want to fix/update stuff in la4j? Or do you need a reference to the latest source? If not, dependency management is the answer. la4j is pushed to Maven Central. We could try using Gradle for this (it would also replace Ant).

How's your experience with submodules (I have none..). From what I read: if jMAVlib is going to change regularly, submodules might be a bad idea.

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Ugh, I noticed that you really are referencing the latest source version of la4j (0.5.0) and it is not yet available on Maven central..
I added a Gradle build to test it:
https://github.com/AndreasAntener/FlightPlot/tree/gradle_build

To try this you need Maven and Gradle installed, then go into FlightPlot dir:

cd la4j
mvn clean install
cd ..
gradle clean build

The mvn command first builds the la4j library from source into your local Maven repository (so it is available for the Gradle build). This is of course very inconvenient now, but it's supposed to be in Maven Central (someone should ping the author about it). The gradle command then builds the whole thing which surprisingly worked for me :)

Also I deleted the IntelliJ project files. If you want to edit it with IntelliJ, just do

gradle idea

and it will generate project files for it. As soon as we get rid of the IntelliJ GUI stuff this will work for Eclipse as well.

In general, this is the way to go I think.

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la4j will be updated not frequently, I think we will be happy with some stable version. So I will try you approach, thank you.

But jMAVlib will be updated frequently and together with FlightPlot, and maybe it will be useful to have corresponding feature branches for FlightPlot and jMAVlib, so I think submodule is good here (e.g. you can specify which jMAVlib commit/branch should be used on specific FlightPlot branch). I use submodules some time and see that it's convinient for this situation. I already removed all project files from jMAVlib and it included as sources, also convinient when hacking FlightPlot, sometimes I need to hack quickly jMAVlib too.

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la4j removed from deps

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