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I just wanted to debug one of the Ant tasks in nbbuild/antsrc and it is slow, unfriendly and sometimes even impossible. I attribute that to the use of freeform project. It is possible to fix it, but everytime I make debugging of these Ant tasks possible, it lasts just for few weeks before some other change breaks it again. If we had the tasks in regular JavaSE project, these hassles could be gone.
Created attachment 81194 [details] Rearrangement of sources to nbbuild/ant Java SE project
Jesse, do you want to apply the patch? Build for cluster.basic passed OK on my computer. Commit validation started as well. I am not sure if there are no failures among the tests due to their changed location, however.
I would want to do further changes; the patch is incomplete in a number of ways. Anyway will wait until after Richard finishes fixing tests to consider this. Could you be more specific about what "it lasts just for few weeks before some other change breaks it again" means - what changes, what problems?
Debugging of the Ant tasks is working fine for me after core-main #90307a1f5309.