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Bug 204551

Summary:	Make Ant build output dir configurable to avoid "Cannot place the project in a project folder that already contains "dist" folder."
Product:	java	Reporter:	pekarna <pekarna>
Component:	Project	Assignee:	Tomas Zezula <tzezula>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	7.0.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:

Description pekarna 2011-11-01 22:17:55 UTC

NetBeans refuses to create an Ant project where there's already a dist directory, without leaving any option to configure other name for NB's build output.


STR:

1) Download Java EE 6 TCK
2) New Project -> Java -> with Existing Sources
3) Navigate to the TCK dir
4) NetBeans will refuse to create a project there:
  "Cannot place the project in a project folder that already contains "dist" folder."

Marking as DEFECT since it actually breaks functionality.
(I wonder whether no one uses NetBeans in TCK team?)

Comment 1 Jesse Glick 2011-11-10 15:24:35 UTC

Workaround would be to temporarily move aside the dist folder, create the project via wizard, change dist location in project.properties, move back dist folder.

Comment 2 Tomas Zezula 2011-11-10 16:21:04 UTC

The dist can be changed in the project.properties when the project is created, not in the wizard :-(
I agree that for new project from existing sources it should be customizable.

Comment 3 Tomas Zezula 2011-11-11 20:17:11 UTC

Fixed jet-main bea59862a927

Comment 4 Tomas Zezula 2011-11-11 20:18:29 UTC

Fixed for J2SE project types.
If the report is about web (j2ee) project please create a new issue on j2ee/web project.

Comment 5 Quality Engineering 2011-11-12 16:30:33 UTC

Integrated into 'main-golden'
Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-golden/rev/bea59862a927
User: Tomas Zezula <tzezula@netbeans.org>
Log: #204551:Make Ant build output dir configurable to avoid "Cannot place the project in a project folder that already contains "dist" folder."