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When I open NetBeans 5.0 beta with an empty usedDir the first time, and then try to open a version 4.1 project, then I get exceptions in an infinite loop until I kill NetBeans. I feel kind of disconnected because I could not find any command to import 4.1 projects. So I tried to load the project. Should this program not first check whether the project it tries to open is compatible i.e. has a version that it supports and then issue a message if it has the wrong version?
Created attachment 27534 [details] messages.log
All exceptions come from mdr and javacore. Not sure what's wrong there. Opening of 4.1 projects in 5.0 should work just fine. Note that the user is on Win 98 which is unsupported.
Windows 98 is not supported platform. Changing priority to P3. It looks like your IDE instalation is somehow corrupted. java.lang.IllegalStateException: Metamodel XMI malformed. is really strange. Please try to reinstall the IDE a attach comment if it helps.
I deleted the Netpeans program directory and the userDir. Then I re-installed (from zip file into empty new program directory). The same thing happens. Maybe I should mention that on startup I get an exception that is recorded in issue 69837. I thought Java is cross-platform. Why is it that Win98 is not supported? And if it is really not supported, why does Netbeans then not tell me that? It should refuse to start. I would like to contribute with my issue reports. Could it be that i am wasting my time?
No, you are not wasting your time, we appreciate any bug report, but unfortunatelly Windows 98 is not supported platform for NetBeans 5.0 release. We simply cannot test and support IDE on all available platforms at a time. Thanks for your report though, we will definitely look at it.
It is really strange. It looks like corrupted netbeans dir and/or userdir. Sorry for my stupid questions, but did you really deleted netbeans dir (C:\prog\netbeans5) and user dir (C:\bt\netbeans.5)? BTW how did you install netbeans? Using installer or zip? Where did you get it? Thanks.
Yes I did delete the two directories and then re-created them empty before re-installing from the zip file. I downloaded it a few days ago: netbeans-5_0-beta2-bin.zip. I used zip not installer because of file size and because I have also used the zip file for version 4.1 which works for me. It would not surprise me if you get the same errors if you install on win98 the same way as I do.
I think all of these issues are going to be closed, aren't they?
I am closing all reports in category Java/Unsupported as wontfix. These should be dead issues --- if the reported cases are against some live part of the NetBeans IDE please reopen and we can discuss to which category they belong.