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| Summary: | Bad settings on upgrade from 5.0beta2 to 5.0 final | ||
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| Product: | projects | Reporter: | ulfzibis <ulfzibis> |
| Component: | Ant | Assignee: | Jesse Glick <jglick> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | blocker | ||
| Priority: | P2 | ||
| Version: | 5.x | ||
| Hardware: | PC | ||
| OS: | Windows XP | ||
| Issue Type: | DEFECT | Exception Reporter: | |
| Bug Depends on: | 38552, 42157, 51033, 57701, 60750 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | |||
Reassigning to "ant" for evaluation. Problem in 5.0b2 userdir probably issue #65142 or similar (bug in prerelease versions of IDE). Re. more general comments - nobody likes *.settings files and we are looking to replace them with the Preferences API in NB 6.0 but it will take some work to get there. I can't speak to how exactly this will affect settings import, but it ought to make it much easier to diagnose upgrade problems and to get them right on the development side before user testing. Anyway Issuezilla is a poor forum for this; use IZ for specific reproducible bug reports and use nbdev for other comments. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 65142 *** Issue 65142 was fixed Nov 10 2005, but this issue was discovered Apr 14 2006. How can this bug be fixed as duplicate of 65142 ? Now I have NB5.5 Q-build 3 installed. I'll bet you, that I will have the same problems when NB5.5 final is out! The bug was not in the 5.0 release, it was in the 5.0 beta which incorrectly stored the path to the IDE installation in your Ant settings even if you did not explicitly change your Ant location. Which IDE you import *to* is not relevant; it matters which IDE you imported *from*. The simplest fix is to delete $userdir/config/Services/org-apache-tools-ant-module-AntSettings.settings. 6.0 dev builds also let you click "Use Default" in Ant Settings to reset "Ant Home"; not sure if this is present in 5.0 or not. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 65142 *** |
At Tools->Options->Miscellaneous->Ant I found: Ant Home: C:\Program Files\Java\netbeans-5.0beta2\ide6\ant !!!!! After installing NetBeans 5.0 final, I copied the config folder from {HOME}\.netbeans\5.0beta to {HOME}\.netbeans\5.0 to keep my settings. 1.) After first start of the IDE I scanned the {HOME}\.netbeans\5.0 folder for occurences of 'beta2' and 'dev' and I discovered many occurences of these strings. I had to replace them all by hand. 2.) There is no chance to refactor settings by hand, which are disguised in binary files as in {HOME}\.netbeans\5.0\config\Services\*.SETTINGS; e.g. 'Ant Home' Please find a solution for those problems, as they have a long history: Issues 57701, 60750, 38552, 51033. I don't feel like doing beta-test anymore, if these problems are not solved satisfactorily.