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The issue is that I run NB 7.3 on MacOS 10.8 and my Ant target does an exec of "hg"; if NB is started by clicking on the MacOS dock then Mercurial isn't found when the Ant target is called. Reason is that NB's process is created with a default PATH one cannot reach hg with (/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin). I cannot do an exec of "/full/path/to/hg" because there's no standard path among the set of users. Is there a smart answer to this ? I read other users bumped it years ago (https://blogs.oracle.com/kto/entry/netbeans_mac_os_x_and) ... For the time being I've worked around it by creating a /etc/launchd.conf to set a Mercurial proof PATH as explained here: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/63662/how-to-change-path-environment-variable-to-os-x-10-8-mountain-lion-that-will-be In NB's Options panel, Miscellaneous > Versioning tab I can set the value of "Mercurial Executable Path". NB has probably an internal variable to host that value: does-it make sense to think NB could create a property from that value so that when writing my Ant target I could do an exec of "${hg.path}/hg" in place of "hg" ?
1) NB has no such accessible variable, someone would need to get it from mercurial support private properties: NbPreferences.root().node("org/netbeans/modules/mercurial").get("hgExecBinary") - without any guarantee of stability (may change in future) 2) i don't know how running ant tasks from the IDE works but i assume it's run in a separate process so ${hg.path} would have to be set by its caller. Not sure who that is: projects/ant ??
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