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Bug 54563

Summary:	Allow use source directory by 2 projects
Product:	projects	Reporter:	zikmund <zikmund>
Component:	Generic Infrastructure	Assignee:	Jesse Glick <jglick>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	P3
Version:	4.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:

Description zikmund 2005-02-04 17:54:14 UTC

Allow usage of 1 source folder in 2 projects.

Now there's an error dialog in such case and you
are prohibited to share it. We could probably only
ask user if he/she really wants to do it.

See nbusers thread
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/BrowseList?listName=nbusers&by=thread&from=28292
for more information.

Comment 1 Milan Kubec 2005-02-07 10:56:25 UTC

There are good reasons why to forbid that. Doing it would lead to
really unwanted side efects. Tomas please clarify what could happen.

Comment 2 Tomas Zezula 2005-02-07 16:21:38 UTC

Definitely WANTFIX for promo-E, probably WANTFIX at all.
This is a nightmare feature of prj40_prototype. The only way how to
find a Project for a FileObject was through nodes which propagate the
Project  in lookup from the parent to children. My personal opinion is
to close it as WANTFIX.

Comment 3 Milan Kubec 2005-02-07 16:27:29 UTC

Tomas please provide description of possible problems that arise when
two projects would share one source root. Thanks.

Comment 4 Jesse Glick 2005-03-10 16:30:44 UTC

Absolutely WONTFIX, not now or ever. Numerous complications arise from
attempting to do this, and it is not necessary for any actual use case that I am
aware of anyway.

Comment 5 Jan Lahoda 2006-01-23 13:32:50 UTC

*** Issue 66437 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***