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Apisupport should be included with the source distribition to enable rebuild of the IDE (development environment) only from the source. For the moment, one has to use autoupdate, to start developing a module for Netbeans...what happen is autoupdate/or web site is buggy? Also apisupport should not be in the nbbuild/build.xml script, but just in the source tree, thus people have all the material to rebuild a given version of the IDE without external depencies.
I think apisupport is intentionally omitted from the product. If you disagree, feel free to bring it up on nbdiscuss, but arguing in Issuezilla is not going to work. Re. "Also apisupport should not be in the nbbuild/build.xml script, but just in the source tree, thus people have all the material to rebuild a given version of the IDE without external depencies." - not sure what you are talking about; it *is* in the source tree, and you can rebuild whatever you want without external dependencies. Probably you should use nbdev and state more clearly what you are missing.