[NETBEANS-3230] remove ht-clean target from build.xml

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 11.3
• Assignee: Brad Walker
• Reporter: Brad Walker
• Created: 10/Oct/19 19:43
• Updated: 11/Nov/19 18:17
• Resolved: 11/Nov/19 18:17

Description

The Netbeans project no longer uses Mercurial as it's primary source code control system. It's not all managed in a Git repo. Therefore, we no longer need to carry around the technical debt in build.xml..

For example, the clean target has the following

     <try-else first="-hg-clean" second="-real-clean"/>

Yet, "-hg-clean" has the following fail and never will get executed..

    <fail message="Not running in a Mercurial checkout."> 

So it can safely be removed..

Before

....
[releasejson] Branding computed info: metabuild.logcli=-J-Dnetbeans.logger.console=true -J-ea

clean:

-hg-clean:
 [try-else] /tmp/netbeans/nbbuild/build.xml:1343: Not running in a Mercurial checkout.
 [try-else] Target -hg-clean failed, falling back to -real-clean

-jdk-pre-preinit:

-jdk-preinit:
...

After

[releasejson] Branding computed info: metabuild.logcli=-J-Dnetbeans.logger.console=true -J-ea

clean:

-jdk-pre-preinit:

-jdk-preinit:

Issue Links

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