According to the email Blake is the author of Kiss. He drops in time-to-time to complain about something like this.
On 1/14/26 11:11, Pieter van den Hombergh wrote:
Kiss decided to use a homebrewn build system(build). This is not supported by NetBeans. This has been discussed earlier on this maillijst. met vriendelijke groet Pieter van den Hombergh Op wo 14 jan 2026, 19:52 schreef Blake McBride <[email protected]>: Greetings, I've been away from NetBeans for a while. Thought I'd give NetBeans 28 a try. I am trying it with the system located at https://github.com/blakemcbride/Kiss Although that system includes build files for Maven, Gradle, and Ant, it isn't built with any of them. Pom.xml is just there to describe dependencies for GitHub. The Gradle build was a failed experiment (I should delete that!). And the Ant script is just a cover to call the actual build system. Those build files can be deleted so that NetBeans doesn't get confused. I have tried to use NetBeans 28 for a while with no luck. It appears to only support "standard" applications. If you try to do anything innovative, you're out of luck. I use IntelliJ everyday with it without any problems. It makes me think that NetBeans is designed to only work in very specific and conventional projects. It is not a generic IDE. Anyway, I successfully used NetBeans in the past but with each passing version it becomes more and more impossible. Although I doubt this message will be received well, I thought I'd share it anyway. Thanks. Blake McBride
