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It is not possible to use a NetBeans Platform (i.e. not a whole IDE) as a target platform. 1) There is not bin/netbeans executable (can be bypassed by run.app.sh=platform5/lib/nbexec but it should work out-of-the-box at least for NB Platform I think) 2) there is not the switch "--reload" for nbexec which I don't know how to workaround in the meantime (again, half for being informed about progress)
Re. lack of executable - yes, I know. Re. --reload - this is handled by Java code, not the launcher; nbexec should not care.
Re. --reload: you mean that this is available only from apisupport/ant, which is not in the platform. Fixable.
Additionally to the executable problem, I faced the following situation: when building additional modules for the bare platform, using targets like all-openide/util and others, some modules get compiled into the ide5 cluster, instead of platform5, and thus are not loaded by default by the harness' run target. I didn't find a cross-platform workaround for this because the path separator is different between linux and windows.
gpothier: I don't think I know what you're talking about, so it would be best to file your problem as a separate issue, with detailed steps to reproduce from scratch.
I think #1 should now be solved. #2 still open.
#2 is now probably also fixed, but I'm still working on verifying it. (Sidetracked by some problems building the platform from sources.)
Should be fixed now (i.e., when next dev builds of *both* IDE and Platform are made). Still some rough spots.
verified