Building 3.x is easier than ever

Just wanted to mention that as of last week, the 3.x code (in the trunk 
of the repository) is now easier to build than it ever was. In 
particular, you no longer have to download and install additional 
software. The new JSwat build takes care of this automatically. If you 
are interested in compiling JSwat from source, the steps go like this:

1. Install JDK 1.5
2. Install Ant 1.6.5
3. Extract JSwat source
4. ant prepare
5. ant build
6. ant run

That's it in a nutshell. The full documentation is in the source tree, 
under docs/dev, with the compile.html file providing the detailed build 
instructions.

For those interested, the build was simplified by having the build 
script pull the NetBeans IDE source code archive off the web, extract 
it, build the Platform, then build the IDE, then copy the IDE modules 
needed by JSwat to the Platform installation. The beauty of this is that 
it also gives us JavaHelp and JUnit, with no additional effort.

As always, I'm more than happy to receive contributions from others. 
Take a look at the bug database and/or write to this list before getting 
started, in order to coordinate with others, and avoid duplicating any 
effort.

Thanks

n