It seems that it repeats every release. The worst bugs appear a second before the end of the release cycle. I always think "did we forget to test this situation?". the answer is "No". We did our best. Unfortunately, we are not able to cover all the different configurations and usages that the users can create. As written in various books and papers it's mission impossible
We have a P1 in NetBeans 6.5 FCS candidate that looks really serious. The IDE starts to delete users' files on the disc. Real stopper, right?
Fortunately, it isn't easy to get into this situation. When you could face it? You need a project in a version control system (most likely SVN) then you have to "too many open files". It means exceed the limit for open files in your system. The it can happen that the IDE goes mad and deletes some of the files.
Good news is that we have fix and we are testing it. It will take a time... The fix is in Filesystems which is one of the core IDE functionalities. Everybody builds on it.
UPDATE: thank you to all who helped with the final testing of the latest fixes in NetBeans 6.5! We are done. No regressions, no new stoppers.
Would make it more believable that you guys did a good job with testing if you had correct spelling in your post ("ccyle", "books ands papers") :-)
Posted by Al Chumley on November 11, 2008 at 02:17 PM CET #
FIXED. Thank you for catching it. My apologies.
OTOH, let me cite Forrest Gump - "shit happens" ;)
Have a nice day.
Posted by Lukas Hasik on November 11, 2008 at 02:22 PM CET #