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I have a suite which is made up of a bunch of modules. I'm trying to make an NBM zipfile but when I choose BuildZIPDistribution it complains that the suite is not set up as a standalone application. Why this limitation?!?!? It's not _that_ unusual to bundle a bunch of module NBM's together to form a downloadable package.
Reassigning to apisupport.
"Build ZIP Distribution" is specifically for applications: a launcher is created, an "etc/" dir, etc. What you want is "Build NBMs" (which also creates an updates.xml if you want that). If you want to ZIP those NBMs together, do so yourself.
I take exception to this being marked as "invalid". As I stated, it's not that unusual to have to a bunch of nbm's get zipped. Practically every external NB module contributor has to do this. So, no, I don't want to zip the stuff myself, I want the IDE to do this for me. What's so invalid about this request?
That would be an unrelated feature.
Thanks. It's only unrelated when you look at it from bottom up :-) From the users perspective it's an "abstract method": "make zip".
Well the resulting file is indeed a ZIP in either case, but the contents are very different. I think it would be confusing for a single menu item (or Ant target) to do completely different things depending on whether or not a suite project happened to be marked as an application.
*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 134425 ***