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3.4.- Get rid of "cnd/cnd.debugger/external/cpplite-mi-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar" retrieving donated stuff from contrib/cnd.debugger as required
Steps 3.3 and 3.4 above merged in https://github.com/apache/netbeans/commit/9bdac2b8ed38528a3b196fbdd0424d34717f4e3a , we've recovered cnd.debugger.common2 and cnd.debugger.gdb from contrib).
3.5.- Migration path from "cpplite" projects to "Make based projects with existing sources.
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