Re: running a v7 NB from hg checkout?

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Re: running a v7 NB from hg checkout?

Stephen Bannasch wrote:
I'd like an easier way to keep up-to-date with v7 of NB on my Mac OS X 10.5.6 system.

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Can I setup an mac app structure where the code I downloaded above is just checked out using mercurial right into the test app?

I do not know the answer to the above, not having Mac, hopefully someone else jumps in.

I've got a Ruby version (with additional Java clutser) of NB v7 working in a mac app. The code was downloaded from hudson artfacts hosted here:

http://deadlock.netbeans.org/hudson/job/trunk/lastStableBuild/artifact/nbbuild/dist/zip/

I downloaded and installed into my template mac app dir earlier versions of these kinds of artifacts:

netbeans-hudson-trunk-4705-ruby.zip

moduleclusters/netbeans-hudson-trunk-4705-java.zip

This works great and I've been using and learning about the NB and the Ruby debugger which I like.

But these MB artifacts produced by hudson keep changing -- so I want to build these artifacts from the source (I don't need the final zip packaging stage -- just the artifacts before zipping).

That way using mercurial I can just update, build and have a new NB instance -- or since I have the repo I can back off to any earlier version very easily.

I just cloned the netbeans repo:

mkdir netbeans

cd netbeaqns

hg clone http://hg.netbeans.org/main/

cd main

I had to set pergem and heap mem absurdly high otherwise ant ran out of permgen space while compiling:

export ANT_OPTS=-'Xmx2048m -XX:MaxPermSize=2048m'

ant

I'm running Apache Ant version 1.7.1 on MacOS 10.5.6, with Java 1.5.0_16

Then I copied the existing v7 netbeans app I had made (just to reuse its macapp dir form), deleted the netbeans dir in Contents/Resources:

NetBeans_v7_trunk.app/Contents/Resources/netbeans

Then I created a symbolic link in the Resources dir named netbeans pointing to the netbeans execuatbleI just built in the hg clone.

ln -s /Users/stephen/dev/java/src/netbeans/main/nbbuild/netbeans netbeans

Seems to work fine.

The only problem is that after I did an hg pull -u running ant to update the code for the app still took 30m.

Is there an incremental/smarter way to build NB than just running the default ant task?

Also -- can I use NB with trunk JRuby instead of the JRuby 1.1.4 that comes installed?

Sure, just add it as a new platform in the platform manager and point your project to it.

http://wiki.netbeans.org/FaqRubyPlatformPerProject

Let me know if the above link does not help.

Thanks, that worked.

However I got these errors when selecting Tools:Ruby Gems -- not sure what they mean ??

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