[jira] [Updated] (DERBY-5286) Remove or update tools/ide/netbeans directory

["Knut Anders Hatlen (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-5286?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Knut Anders Hatlen updated DERBY-5286:
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    Attachment: update-project.diff

Here's an attempt to fix the issue by switching from two projects to one and update the new project to be more usable.

First, copy the 6.0 version of the project to a location without a version number:

svn cp tools/ide/netbeans/6.0/nbproject tools/ide/netbeans

Then remove the version-specific projects:

svn rm tools/ide/netbeans/5.5 tools/ide/netbeans/6.0

Finally, update the project using the attached patch (update-project.diff). The patch makes the following changes to the project definition:

1) Adjust the relative path to the project directory to account for the nbproject directory being moved up one level.

2) Modify classpath:

  - Remove tools/java/xercesImpl.jar since it's no longer in the repository.

  - Change reference to ant.jar to ${ant.core.lib} so that it works without copying ant.jar to tools/java.

  - Remove the classes directory since it's not needed and causes duplicate entries in the Go to type dialogue window.

3) Change source level from 1.4 to 1.5 to prevent error markers when working on code that uses generics or other 1.5 language features. 

4) Add project-specific formatting so that you don't need to change the global formatting settings to get the correct tab size for Derby code.

> Remove or update tools/ide/netbeans directory
> ---------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: DERBY-5286
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-5286
>             Project: Derby
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Build tools
>    Affects Versions: 10.9.0.0
>            Reporter: Knut Anders Hatlen
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: update-project.diff
>
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> The tools/ide directory contains projects for two versions of NetBeans (5.5 and 6.0). Since they haven't been updated for newer versions of NetBeans, I suppose it means they aren't used much. Also, since there are two of them, NetBeans gets confused as to which of the projects to use, and I have experienced that it often uses a mix of the 5.5 and 6.0 projects for the open source files, which causes problems for navigation and debugging. The problem with having multiple NetBeans projects pointing to the same source is described here: http://wiki.netbeans.org/FaqSourceRootOverlap
> To prevent these problems, we should either remove the tools/ide/netbeans directory and let NetBeans users create their own projects (there a pretty good description on the wiki: http://wiki.apache.org/db-derby/BuildingDerby#Using_NetBeans_to_Build_Derby ), or provide an updated project and remove the old ones.
> (The project files aren't really tied to a particular version of NetBeans and can be opened by newer versions. But the projects still need to be updated to be usable, I think. For example, they should have project-specific formatting settings (added in NB 6.5, I think) which set tab size to 4, since setting tab size globally to 4 as you would have to with the current projects, only works if Derby is the only project you're working on in NetBeans.)

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