Re: Re: [nbdev] Please make build system more intuitive

Indeed, he emailed me to say that the dependency problem went away.

But he mentioned the following exception occurred (maybe it is the 
standard "storage doesn't exist yet, will create it now" exception)?

Annotation: Exception occurred in Request Processor
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Missing mandatory property:
org.netbeans.mdr.persistence.btreeimpl.filename
         at
org.netbeans.mdr.persistence.btreeimpl.btreestorage.BtreeFactory.createStora
ge(BtreeFactory.java:31)
         at
org.netbeans.mdr.storagemodel.MdrStorage.<init>(MdrStorage.java:249)
         at
org.netbeans.mdr.NBMDRepositoryImpl.initCheck(NBMDRepositoryImpl.java:452)
         at
org.netbeans.mdr.NBMDRepositoryImpl.getExtent(NBMDRepositoryImpl.java:206)
         at
org.netbeans.modules.mdrxml.MDRXMLModule.installXML(MDRXMLModule.java:77)
         at
org.netbeans.modules.mdrxml.MDRXMLModule$1.run(MDRXMLModule.java:49)
         at org.openide.util.Task.run(Task.java:136)
[catch] at
org.openide.util.RequestProcessor$Processor.run(RequestProcessor.java:599)



Martin Matula wrote:
> I think that Andrew had problem with MDR before the JMI interfaces were 
> put on Autoupdate. At that time you had to build the JMI interfaces and 
> install them yourself (because of legal issues) and after that install 
> the MDR modules from autoupdate. This was explained on our 
> http://mdr.netbeans.org/installation.html page, but many people did not 
> know that and thus had problems. The problem is solved as finally we 
> were able to release also JMI interfaces.
> Martin
> 
> Brian Smith wrote:
> 
>> [Moved to MDR-DEV}
>>
>> I never tried MDR from autoupdate since I always am using CVS builds 
>> of everything. But, I think that the MDR team expects that the MDR 
>> modules from autoupdate to be usable. Could you explain your problem 
>> in more detail? Is it the Looks API by chance?
>>
>> Andrew Chandler wrote:
>>
>>> Considering I've managed to totally mess up my install twice when 
>>> trying to
>>> deal with MDR I'm probably the wrong person to ask :-0
>>> My main problme I guess is that until now I've tried to use the 
>>> pre-built
>>> stuff for my day to day and only build those things I thought I 
>>> absolutely
>>> had to - MDR is one of those because despite the modules being 
>>> available for
>>> download there is a dependency (or was about a month ago) that you 
>>> can't get
>>> from the auto update and have to instead build.
>>
>>
>>
> 
>