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At the moment NetBeans makes the assumption that anything that is executable is also debuggable (and vice versa). This is true, at the moment, for Java things, but it isn't true for other things. For example, shell scripts are executable, but not necessarily debuggable (this is also true of build scripts like makefiles). Core/crash files are often debuggable, but not executable. It would be desirable to have separate debugging and executable capabilities added to files so that incorrect actions are not enabled in the IDE.
Actually, I think this is a little more important than a P4, but its target shouldn't be NB3.4, so I've changed the target to 4.0 In addition to the factors I mentioned below, this also seems to allow me to run an arbitrary java file with the debugger, even when that java file has no main(). (maybe this will be less of an issue when we get Projects?)
fixed in nb4.0 branch
reopen to fix status and resolution
fix status and resolution
Verified ... and Closing all issues resolved into NetBeans 6.7 and earlier.