NetBeans Weekly News - Issue #68

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Issue #68 - June 03, 2002
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* Builds

Jan Chalupa announces that NB 3.3.2 RC2 is available in the Downloads
area: http://www.netbeans.org/devhome/download.html
The expected release date for the final version is "early June". At this
moment, there are no plans for additional changes and RCs.
For a complete list of changes since NB 3.3.1 see
http://www.netbeans.org/devhome/docs/releases/33/nb332-fixes.html

New Q-build is out (message by Petr Hrebejk):
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=326913&listName=nbusers

* Announcements

New Test Tools Module is available: message by Adam
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=325564&listName=nbdev
tells you more. Relevant links are here:
http://testtools.netbeans.org
http://testtools.netbeans.org/servlets/ProjectDownloadList

Q-build process is changing to better use QA
resources and to shorten times to produce stable Q-builds. Please
read the full announcement here:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=327515&listName=nbdev

Do you want your voice to be heard? Here is a survey mapping how is
the IDE used and what the users think. The survey is conducted for
Forte for Java but the more feedback from the NetBeans community the
better.
http://forte.sun.com/services/Survey/Start

Ian Formanek announced
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=327971&listName=nbui
creation of a page called "NetBeans Graphics Repository"
http://ui.netbeans.org/graphics/index.html

* Discussions

The work on new Data Systems has been started. You can check threads
started by Yarda
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=325609&listName=nbdev
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=326434&listName=nbdev

Daniel Pfeffer started discussions about higher level long term planning.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=328108&listName=nbdiscuss

Ben Hutchison proposes changes in the Editor module:
"Editor module needs Segmentation & Public APIs"
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=327599&listName=nbdev

In the last edition Radim said that Radek's API change was the last one.
So here is another last one -- this time by myself (for the lookup fans):
http://openide.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=326182&listName=dev

XML module is also trying to finalize their APIs. Read the thread
started by Petr Kuzel
http://openide.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=327509&listName=dev

NetBeans Out of the Box experience should be improved according to
the UI people. The discussion (and work on the new feature) is
under way:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/BrowseList?listName=nbui&by=thread&from=12048

Property sheet's splitter behaviour has changed - read Jirka's
post and discussion here (original code contributed by
Jan Labrie <[email protected]>)
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=326556&listName=nbui

Were you building NetBeans with a long command line? Read Jesse's tip
here http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=328354&listName=nbdev

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