On 10/5/07, Jesse Glick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't recall any previous discussion of whether IDE-specific metadata > are wanted/permitted in the source tree. I have been privately > maintaining a NetBeans "freeform" project setup for Ant which ties into > the build script in various ways and offers easier and more precise > development of Ant from the IDE. For example, you can ask to debug a > single test case and it will run the right target (with the right > parameter) from build.xml and connect it to the IDE's debugger. Since > Ant's own build.xml is not in general runnable by the last official > release, it uses a wrapper script to do some bootstrapping and other > preparation.
I also think it's a good idea, but only if it's kept up-to-date ;-) > Currently I just keep this in a separate directory structure so as to > keep my svn checkout clean, and refer to the checkout via an external > path. But if there are others who might want to use the same IDE on Ant > it seems a waste for them to not get the same project setup. > Distributing the metadata separately is awkward (especially if targets > in build.xml change) and few people would find it. > > Could/should this metadata be put in the Ant source tree somewhere? It > is a directory "nbproject" with a few files (no changes to other files > are needed). If at top level, you would be able to open the top source > dir as a NB project; if under e.g. src/etc/ you would need to know to > open that parent dir instead. I would need to do some cleanup to test > that all pieces still work (some I wrote months or even years ago) and > to ensure that all absolute paths or other per-user configuration could > be loaded from an svn-ignorable user.properties file. I think the top-level Ant dir is a bit cluttered already, so adding too many additional files might not be a good idea, unless you can have just one or two files in the top-level dir, and the rest somewhere else. But "nbproject" is not explicit enough a name IMHO. Rather use netbeans explicitly. --DD --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
