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Bug 116624 - j2se project files from nb 5.0 are converted without warning
Summary: j2se project files from nb 5.0 are converted without warning
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: java
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Project (show other bugs)
Version: 6.x
Hardware: All All
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: Tomas Zezula
URL:
Keywords:
: 116483 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2007-09-25 09:14 UTC by afreije
Modified: 2011-08-31 14:07 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description afreije 2007-09-25 09:14:15 UTC 
I created some J2SE projects in Netbeans 5.0. When opening the projects in Netbeans 6.0, the project files in the
nbproject directories are converted according to the 6.0 conventions automatically.
The changes are not bad, but Netbeans shouldn't be allowed to change the files without the possibility of user
intervention. At least there should be a warning before the changes are made, allowing the user to bale out, similar to
the upgrade from 4.0 to 5.0.
Comment 1 Tomas Zezula 2007-09-25 12:57:19 UTC 
*** Issue 116483 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 2 Tomas Zezula 2007-09-25 14:22:50 UTC 
The changes from NB 5.x to NB 6.0 are compatible unlike the changes from NB 4.x to 5.0. These changes do not harm the
project, the project still works in NB 5.x. unlike the project from 5.x in 4.x. When the IDE tries to do any
noncompatible changes it warns you about it.
Comment 3 Tomas Zezula 2007-09-25 14:23:12 UTC 
The changes from NB 5.x to NB 6.0 are compatible unlike the changes from NB 4.x to 5.0. These changes do not harm the
project, the project still works in NB 5.x. unlike the project from 5.x in 4.x. When the IDE tries to do any
noncompatible changes it warns you about it.
Comment 4 afreije 2007-09-25 14:55:09 UTC 
I agree that the changes do not harm the project, but the mere fact that a program changes files without my explicit
permission worries me. I only noticed the change because I use Subversion.
Just wanted to see how NB 6 is doing (very nice indeed!), and noticed that somewhere in the project were some
uncommitted files. It would be nice to get a notification at least, with a text not to worry about the changes since
they are compatible with NB 5
Comment 5 Tomas Zezula 2007-09-25 15:14:29 UTC 
OK, makes sense. The only question is if it should be a modal dialog like in case of incompatible change or if it should
be some kind of "softer" warning. Adding UI to cc list.
Comment 6 Jesse Glick 2007-09-26 18:03:56 UTC 
I don't know. We don't generally display a dialog every time we make a compatible format upgrade in a project, e.g. just
because we fixed a bug in build-impl.xml. Do we really want such a dialog to appear? Would it cause more alarm than
reassurance?
Comment 7 Tomas Zezula 2007-09-26 20:21:49 UTC 
The changes in the build-impl.xml aren't important and shouldn't be notified, the question is if we should notify the
compatible changes in project.properties. The dialog is probably worse than nothing, user needs to click the OK button,
maybe some message in th status line when the project is opened.
Comment 8 Jiri Prox 2008-04-11 00:53:33 UTC 
moving opened issues from TM <= 6.1 to TM=Dev