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If a module has a suite.properties file in it the it cannot be added to another module suite but, more importantly, it silently fails to alret the user when trying to add to another module suite. In my case, the suite.properties came from a previous module suite that the project had been removed from. Reproducing the bug: 1) Create a module A and a module suite B. Add module A to suite B (using "Add Existing"). 2) Delete suite B folder from the disk (not using netbeans is the easiest way), leaving a suite.properties file in module A that points nowhere. 3) Create a module suite C. Add module A to module C (again, 'add existing'). Module C will not contain module A and the IDE will not show the dependency. Yet, there will be no dialog or alert. The only way to know what happened is to have the global logger open, which shows a stack trace that says that suite.properties already exists. Expected behavior: There is already a bug requesting that the module suite contain the link to the module rather than the other way around for good reasons. Until that happens, the module should either find a way to belong to multiple suites and it should add themselves to them when asked or it should, at the very least, alert the user that the "add existing" request failed as well as to why the request failed.
IDE should better report the problem, but as a rule we do not support external deletion of projects; you should use the Delete context menu item on the suite if you want to delete it.
Not into 7.0 or next release. Feel free to reopen if more important than it seems.
A mistake, sorry.
This bug was reported against NetBeans IDE 6.0 or an older release, or against a non-maintained module. NetBeans team does not have enough resources to get to this issue, therefore we are closing the issue as a WONTFIX. If you are interested in providing a patch for this bug, please see our NetFIX guidelines for how to proceed. We apologize for any inconvenience. Thank you. The NetBeans Team