Re: Compiling with multiple sources on NB 4.0

Vincent Brabant <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.netbeans.user-interface
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Mark McKay a écrit :

> I'm getting used to the new NetBeans 4.0 interface.  I'm doing some 
> complicated things with my build process, so I need to use freeform 
> projects.
>
> One of the things I'm doing is using four different directories to 
> store my source in.  The reason for this is that there are multiple 
> stages in my build process, some of which will cause code to be auto 
> generated.  Some classes need to be generated before this auto code is 
> generated, while others depend on the auto generated code and must be 
> compiled later.
> Unfortunatley, NB 4.0 seems to assume that only one source tree is 
> used for things like compiling, running or debugging a single file.  
> I've been able to implement all three of these things for freeform 
> projects with a single source root, but not with multiple roots.
>
> Is there a way around this aside from updating my project.xml file 
> everytime I need to run or debug a file from a different source 
> directory?
>
> Mark McKay
>
Maybe it's better to swithc to Netbeans 4.1, even if it's only the EA2.
Reason is that NetBeans 4.1 supports multiple sources directories.
And EA2 is well stable, at least for web and Desktop applications. Maybe 
not sufficient for J2EE.

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Vincent Brabant
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