Support for development of "orphaned" netbeans.org modules

[Jesse Glick]

In main now is a change that lets you edit and build individual modules
from main (or contrib) without the whole source tree. You just need
nbbuild checked out alongside them, and a binary dev build to compile
against; and for IDE usage you need a new dev build.

http://wiki.netbeans.org/DevFaqOrphanedNetBeansOrgModules

Not currently all that useful since there is not yet a straightforward
way to get sources for selected modules without checking out the whole
Hg repository - but that should be solvable, e.g. by offering individual
module sources for download as ZIPs, or by publishing a r/o SVN mirror
of the main and contrib repositories. This could make it easier to
develop casual patches against a module or two.

[tomwheel]

That's a big step in the right direction.  Nice work!

On 8/21/08, Jesse Glick <jesse.glick@...> wrote:

> In main now is a change that lets you edit and build individual modules from
> main (or contrib) without the whole source tree. You just need nbbuild
> checked out alongside them, and a binary dev build to compile against; and
> for IDE usage you need a new dev build.
>
> http://wiki.netbeans.org/DevFaqOrphanedNetBeansOrgModules
>
> Not currently all that useful since there is not yet a straightforward way
> to get sources for selected modules without checking out the whole Hg
> repository - but that should be solvable, e.g. by offering individual module
> sources for download as ZIPs, or by publishing a r/o SVN mirror of the main
> and contrib repositories. This could make it easier to develop casual
> patches against a module or two.
>
>

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Tom Wheeler
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