Hey Lars, the NetBeans top-level directory layout was incompatibility changed. Before the change all modules were at the top-level directory, after the change, the modules were moved into a per-cluster directory.
You need NetBeans 9 to open the modules. HTH Matthias Am Samstag, den 24.11.2018, 18:52 +0100 schrieb Lars Bruun-Hansen: > 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
