NetBeans Weekly News - Issue #63

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* 3.4 development

It seems that passing milestone in development means going through
a local minimum in the quality. No wonder that the same thing happened
when the 3.4 development passed the milestone 3 last week. But anyway 
the milestone build will come soon:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=310814&listName=nbusers

Will it be worth of downloading? I thing the answer is, yes. Why? 
There were many features planed for the milestone 3 and most of 
them made it into the build. Some of them are:

Enabled Drag and Drop in the Explorer tree:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=309429&listName=nbui

Enabled Drag and Drop of Windows.

Maximized MDI frame:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=309187&listName=nbui

Automatic update of parser databases:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=310001&listName=nbui

and more...


* Contributions

But even if you only use the final releases NetBeans will please you
with the 3.3.2 bug fix release soon. It will contain 120 bug fixes.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=309529&listName=nbdev

Good news for people running NetBeans on the OpenVMS operating 
system. There is new module where containing the OpenVMS support 
classes:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=302225&listName=nbdev

Operating systems are not the only thing you can port NetBeans to.
Languages are the other. There is a chance for NetBeans in Russian.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=309575&listName=nbdev

The QA team made the results of continuous testing available on
the NetBeans website.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=308777&listName=nbdev


* Other topics from discussions

Having dependencies checked when invoking compile in the IDE is
a nice thing. If you are interested check Svata's proposal:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=309399&listName=nbdev

Would you prefer having Windows Look&Feel as default. (Don't panic, 
on the Windows platform only, of course)
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=310020&listName=nbui


The build size is growing do we need schema2beans?
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=310400&listName=nbdev
Well, maybe there is another solution, maybe Yarda is right, maybe we
just need to use AutoUpdate more extensively.

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