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A user complains (see URL) that build.xml is hard to read, and thus makes the projects support not very comprehensive. So this request is to improve the readability of build-impl.xml. One way to improve readability could be to separate the IDE-specific targets (debugging, single file compilation) into a separate (more hidden) script, and only leave the ones that will be used in headless builds in build-impl.xml. See also somewhat related issue #46886.
Or could simply move IDE-specific targets to the end of build-impl.xml. It's not at all clear to me from Lew's message that this has much to do with his complaints, however.
Looks like WONTFIX for me for 4.0. I would rather wait till we get more feedback on this from users. Then we can rearrange it.
Not enough info.