Survey: NetBeans features for working on the compiler

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Team,

We're well underway with work to reorganize the compiler and related  
tools into a separate workspace
within OpenJDK. In the short term, this means a separate TeamWare  
workspace at Sun and a separate
top level directory sibling to j2se in the OpenJDK repositories. In  
the Mercurial world, it will (eventually)
mean a separate stand-alone Mercurial repository for everybody.

As part of this work, the build for the compiler has been changed to  
use Ant, with a Makefile wrapper for
those that still prefer GNU make (such as the main j2se build.)  This  
is with the intent that there should be
one single build file used by the official j2se build, the NetBeans  
projects, and the primary contributors
to this part of the code base.

I'm getting to the point of dotting "i"s and crossing "t"s with  
respect to the Netbeans support for this
workspace -- i.e. hooking up NetBeans features to "do the right  
thing".    And here's where I'm looking for
your input. I'm working through the "Advanced Free-Form Project  
Configuration" at
http://www.netbeans.org/kb/41/freeform-config.html, and I'm wondering  
how many of these features we
should support.  Hooking up build/debug/test are no-brainers -- but  
the note lists 15 standard targets,
and I'm wondering if anyone would notice if any were not  
implemented.  So here's your chance to give
your wish-list for NetBeans features that you would like to use when  
working on the compiler.
Existing features only, please; send requests for new features to the  
NetBeans guys!

By the way, so far we do not need any of the new features only  
available in NetBeans 6, so I'm targetting
NetBeans 5 for this work.

-- Jon G.