I feel that I don't want to buy into this, but here's a general observation
that works for me most of the time: find solutions that work for
your circumstance to ease your way through life.

On Fri, 16 Jan 2026 at 10:52, Laszlo Kishalmi <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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
>>
>>

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