I'm an infrequent contributor to Apache NetBeans. It has been a while, about 9 months, and I realize I no longer know how to open a specific NetBeans module and work on that.
Here's what I do: 1. Clone Apache NetBeans from GitHub 2. Run "ant" from the root of the clone. It takes some 10 minutes to complete on my laptop and builds with no errors. 3. Now for the problem. From within NB IDE 8.2 I now try to open a module of the clone. So I attempt to open something like: cloneroot/<cluster>/<module> (e.g. cloneroot/nb/ide.branding), but I get "java.io.IOException: netbeans.org-type module requires at least nbbuild: <path-to-module-I'm-trying-to-open>". Although I understand the individual words in the message, the meaning of it escapes me. I must admit that NB build system is foreign country to me as is Ant. I've tried to look for information about how this is done since I've clearly forgotten my past knowledge. Only this set of videos has come up in my search: https://netbeans.apache.org/participate/build-run-debug-tutorials.html but those videos are made before the repository changed folder layout. Don't know if that is my problem, though. It is probably something obvious on my part that I do wrong. Any pointers? /Lars
