Build Netbeans from sources: Can't open the Netbeans sources in Netbeans

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I have downloaded the Netbeans sources (v8.1) to make a small change in Netbeans. So I followed the instructions on that page: http://wiki.netbeans.org/WorkingWithNetBeansSources

Imported the Netbeans sources with Mercurial: $ hg clone http://hg.netbeans.org/main-silver/. Works.
Build a new fully functional Netbeans Dev Version from the commandline with ant. Works.

According to the instructions I should be able to do that: "The whole source tree has NetBeans project metadata so you can just use NetBeans to develop NetBeans". But that doesn't work.

That's my environment: Netbeans 8.0.2 64Bit, Java 8, Ant 1.9.x, Mercurial 3.6.2. The sources are from 8.1.

As you can see in the screenshot below, the modules (like ant.browsetask or ant.debugger) do have a directory nbproject, but this directory contains only two files: project.properties and project.xml. Shouldn't there be more files? Are these two files sufficient for Netbeans, so it can be recognized as a project?

So how can I open the Netbeans sources in Netbeans?

Bernie · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-31 08:41:47Z

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Ok, I found the solution by myself. Netbeans needs to have the plugin 'Netbeans Plugin Development' installed. I uninstall it usually, because I don't do that, but now's an exception.

answered Dec 31, 2015 at 8:41

Bernie

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