Remove or update tools/ide/netbeans directory
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Key: DERBY-5286
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-5286
Project: Derby
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Build tools
Affects Versions: 10.9.0.0
Reporter: Knut Anders Hatlen
Priority: Minor
The tools/ide directory contains projects for two versions of NetBeans (5.5 and
6.0). Since they haven't been updated for newer versions of NetBeans, I suppose
it means they aren't used much. Also, since there are two of them, NetBeans
gets confused as to which of the projects to use, and I have experienced that
it often uses a mix of the 5.5 and 6.0 projects for the open source files,
which causes problems for navigation and debugging. The problem with having
multiple NetBeans projects pointing to the same source is described here:
http://wiki.netbeans.org/FaqSourceRootOverlap
To prevent these problems, we should either remove the tools/ide/netbeans
directory and let NetBeans users create their own projects (there a pretty good
description on the wiki:
http://wiki.apache.org/db-derby/BuildingDerby#Using_NetBeans_to_Build_Derby ),
or provide an updated project and remove the old ones.
(The project files aren't really tied to a particular version of NetBeans and
can be opened by newer versions. But the projects still need to be updated to
be usable, I think. For example, they should have project-specific formatting
settings (added in NB 6.5, I think) which set tab size to 4, since setting tab
size globally to 4 as you would have to with the current projects, only works
if Derby is the only project you're working on in NetBeans.)
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