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reasons: 1) consistency - harness cluster is present in all distributions (in zip), but not in c/cpp and php (installed) 2) possibility to run tests against installed IDE (php and c/cpp distros) 3) prevent issues like issue 227956
http://hg.netbeans.org/core-main/rev/5d9b456581ff