Survey: NetBeans features for working on the compiler

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Jesse,

Yes, in the end, I ended up with a merge of the IDE actions I find 
useful and of those in the OpenJDK projects, including debug.fix.  It 
seemed the simplest way to minimize surprise.

-- Jon


Jesse Glick wrote:
> Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
>> 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.
>
> debug.fix is very useful and not hard to add. BTW you can also add 
> support for using the NB Profiler if that is desirable. It is easiest 
> to just get the Freeform Project Extras module from Auto Update, then 
> make a "skeletal" project to play with, and copy and paste with edits 
> from its build scripts as desired.
>
> -J.
>