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Bug 60078

Summary:	Free-form project without existing ANT script
Product:	java	Reporter:	muzzz <muzzz>
Component:	Freeform	Assignee:	Tomas Zezula <tzezula>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	blocker	CC:	jglick, pjiricka
Priority:	P3
Version:	4.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:

Description muzzz 2005-06-15 16:05:18 UTC

Provide an option to create a free-form project without an existing ANT script.
The IDE should provide an empty or skeleton build.xml in this case.

This would be useful when knowing that a standard project's build customization
will not be sufficient for the functionality required.

Example use case: product is developed in a mixed end-of-line environment and
tools are used that do not handle this correctly. Manual correction is necessary
and results in every .java file being labeled 'modified' for compilation
purposes. Subsequent attempts to run the project will force unnecessary
recompilation. The standard projects do not allow for the compile step to be
removed from the run task.

Comment 1 Jesse Glick 2006-01-20 18:45:08 UTC

There is a Freeform Samples module on dev alpha Auto Update which does exactly
this. Not clear to me yet what its future is; needs user feedback.

Comment 2 Jan Lahoda 2006-01-23 13:43:17 UTC

*** Issue 61571 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

Comment 3 Milan Kubec 2008-10-17 08:36:41 UTC

We should decide whether to put Freeform samples into distribution.

Comment 4 Antonin Nebuzelsky 2010-01-11 04:28:43 UTC

Changing the default component owner to tzezula.